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Create a `Variant_Base` object whose index is the specified `index` without constructing an alternative object.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_variant.h>`

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Variant_Base(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/Variant_ConstructFromStdTag.adoc[Variant_ConstructFromStdTag] fromStdTag,
    size_t index);
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== Description

Create a `Variant_Base` object whose index is the specified `index` without constructing an alternative object. If this `Variant_Base` is allocator‐aware, the default allocator is used to supply memory.

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *fromStdTag*
| tag selecting this indexless construction overload
| *index*
| index of the alternative that will (later) be created
|===


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