Conversion and Manipulation Functions

Data manipulation and conversion functions access and manipulate the array, string, and variant data types used by Automation. This chapter contains information about the following functions:

Array manipulation
String manipulation
Variant manipulation
Data type conversion
BSTR and vector conversion
Numeric parsing functions
Date and time conversion

You can locate all of the data functions and data types in the following files.

Implemented by	Used by	Header file name	Import library file name
Oleaut32.dll (32-bit systems) Ole2disp.dll (16-bit systems)	Applications that expose or access programmable objects.	Oleauto.h. Dispatch.h	Oleauto32.lib Ole2disp.lib