Question

I would like to be able to cast a value dynamically where the type is known only at runtime. Something like this:

myvalue = CType(value, 'String, Integer or Boolean') 

The string that contains the type value is passed as an argument and is also read from a database, and the value is stored as string in the database.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Sure, but myvalue will have to be defined as of type Object, and you don’t necessarily want that. Perhaps this is a case better served by generics.

What determines what type will be used?