Arguments

variantVar  (Variant) the COM Variant
toType  (integer)  the target type of the variantVar

can be one of the following :
vlax-vbEmpty  0  uninitialised data
vlax-vbNull  1  empty data
vlax-vbInteger  2  short Integer (16 bit)
vlax-vbLong  3  long integer (32 bit)
vlax-vbSingle  4  float-point number (single precision)
vlax-vbDouble  5  double-point number (double precision)
vlax-vbString  8  string
vlax-vbObject 9  VLA-Object
vlax-vbBoolean  11  boolean
vlax-vbVariant  12 variant
vlax-vbArray  8192  SafeArray

Return

returns a variant with new data type (and converted data value)

Example

(setq var (vlax-make-variant 3.12))  #<variant 5 3>
(setq var (vlax-variant-change-type var vlax-vbString))  #<variant 8 3.12>
(vlax-variant-value var)  "3.12"

Remarks