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	Generic variable conversion to string


	Inputs:

any variable


	Outputs:

a string representation


	Remarks:

this function is like php's var_dump. It dumps a
any kind of variable in a string format. There are
a couple of limitations about the data types, such
multidimensional arrays (but not jagged arrays) and
objects (since there is not default toString( ) in vbs).

Implementation

01  function convert( variable )
02    select case vartype( variable )
03      case vbempty:      convert = "[empty]"
04      case vbnull:       convert = "[null]"
05      case vbinteger:    convert = cstr( variable )
06      case vblong:       convert = cstr( variable )
07      case vbsingle:     convert = formatnumber( variable, 2 )
08      case vbdouble:     convert = formatnumber( variable, 2 )
09      case vbcurrency:   convert = cstr( variable )
10      case vbdate:       convert = cstr( variable )
11      case vbstring:     convert = variable
12      case vbobject:     convert = "[object]"
13      case vberror:      convert = "[error]"
14      case vbboolean:    convert = cstr( variable )
15      case vbbyte:       convert = cstr( variable )
16      case vbdataobject: convert = "[dataobject]"
17      case else:         convert = array_convert( variable )
18    end select
19  end function

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