Re: HELP NEEDED convert VARIANT to Double in SAFEARRAY
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Hi, I have a problem converting array of variants into array of doubles
I have the following code:
short _stdcall TwoDim_SafeArray(VARIANT* pv){
...
//lock array
lResult=SafeArrayLock(pv->parray);
if(lResult!=S_OK) return(1);
//access data
double* arr;
arr=(double*)pv->parray->pvData;
when I'm doing this arr[0]=junk, arr[1]=ok, arr[2]=junk, arr[3]=ok and
so for...
I undertand that this is probably happened because Variant size is
about two doubles (I can be wrong since I could not find any
documentation on this matter)
I did write function which handle this, but my question: IS it posible
to do casting one to one (arr[0]=ok, arr[1]=ok...)?
Danger, danger, Will Robinson. A VARIANT is _NOT_ the same as a double,
although a VARIANT can represent a double.
If you know that the VARIANT is of type double, then:
arr = ((VARIANT *) pv->parray->pvData)->dblVal;
will extract the value you are after.
Since you want to iterate over all the VARIANT's, probably a better
construct would be:
VARIANT *v = reinterpret_cast<VARIANT *> (pv->parray->pvData);
for (LONG n = pv->parray->rgsabound[0].lLbound; n <
pv->parray->rgsabound[0].cElements; n++)
{
if (v->vt == VT_R8)
{
*arr++ = v++->dblVal;
}
else
{
// do some error handling.....
}
}
(warning... no debugging done)
Brian
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