Data Types

All data is of a certain type - such as an array of characters, a date, or a number.

Or the data can be an Enumeration, which is a custom type with a set range of values.

But you can convert from one data type to another under certain conditions.

There is also a wildcard type called Variant. A field or variable of this type can contain anything such as a Number or a String. Once set however, you do need to take care when converting a Variant into another type.

If you set a Variant to a string of characters for example, you would receive an error if you then tried to convert it into a number. Unless of course the String represents a Number such as 456.99 which could be converted into a Float data type. Obviously the string of ABC could not be converted to a Number.

Dates can be converted to and from Strings.

There are many data types that are supported by Statelake.