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Create a variant object having the type and value of the specified `original` variant. Optionally specify a `basicAllocator` used to supply memory. If `basicAllocator` is 0, the currently installed default allocator is used.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_variant.h>`

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Variant18(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/Variant18.adoc[Variant18] const& original,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator.adoc[bslma::Allocator]* basicAllocator = 0);
----


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