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Basic Type
By default, variables in <%PRODUCTNAME%> FinalBuilder are Variants. Variants can contain various types, which makes them very versatile. They can however be problematic on some occasions. For example if you wanted to store 03 in a variable, the Variant's type inference would deem that to be an integer, and store it as an integer. When you later retrieve that value, you would get 3, not three. Setting the Basic Type to string would resolve this issue, since the value would always be stored and and retrieved as a string.
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When the basic type variable is set to other than Variant, you can specify a format string which will be used when ever the variable's value is evaluated in a text field in <%PRODUCTNAME%>FinalBuilder. See these topics for valid format strings :
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