diff --git a/Templates/TemplateHelperFunctions.pas b/Templates/TemplateHelperFunctions.pas
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+
+function VarArrayToStr(const vArray: variant): string;
+
+    function _VarToStr(const V: variant): string;
+    var
+    Vt: integer;
+    begin
+    Vt := VarType(V);
+        case Vt of
+          varSmallint,
+          varInteger  : Result := IntToStr(integer(V));
+          varSingle,
+          varDouble,
+          varCurrency : Result := FloatToStr(Double(V));
+          varDate     : Result := VarToStr(V);
+          varOleStr   : Result := WideString(V);
+          varBoolean  : Result := VarToStr(V);
+          varVariant  : Result := VarToStr(Variant(V));
+          varByte     : Result := char(byte(V));
+          varString   : Result := String(V);
+          varArray    : Result := VarArrayToStr(Variant(V));
+        end;
+    end;
+
+var
+i : integer;
+begin
+    Result := '[';
+     if (VarType(vArray) and VarArray)=0 then
+       Result := _VarToStr(vArray)
+    else
+    for i := VarArrayLowBound(vArray, 1) to VarArrayHighBound(vArray, 1) do
+     if i=VarArrayLowBound(vArray, 1)  then
+      Result := Result+_VarToStr(vArray[i])
+     else
+      Result := Result+'|'+_VarToStr(vArray[i]);
+
+    Result:=Result+']';
+end;
+
+function VarStrNull(const V:OleVariant):string; //avoid problems with null variants
+begin
+  Result:='';
+  if not VarIsNull(V) then
+  begin
+    if VarIsArray(V) then
+       Result:=VarArrayToStr(V)
+    else
+    Result:=VarToStr(V);
+  end;
+end;
+