Accessing QVariant of QComboBox

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I'm wanting to use a QComboBox as a sort of data storage for my application. It's not a large ammount of data, and I think this would be the easiest way to not be constantly reading from the database file. This little snippit shows what I'm trying to do.

QStringList dataList;
 
dataList << "D1" << "D2" << "D3";
 
ui->ShowDate->insertItem(0, QDate(query.value(2).toInt(), query.value(0).toInt(), 
                            query.value(1).toInt()).toString(("MMMM d, yyyy")), dataList);

QStringList dataList;

dataList << "D1" << "D2" << "D3";

ui->ShowDate->insertItem(0, QDate(query.value(2).toInt(), query.value(0).toInt(), 
                            query.value(1).toInt()).toString(("MMMM d, yyyy")), dataList);

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I know how to access the text with

ui->lineEdit->setText(ui->ShowDate->currentText());

ui->lineEdit->setText(ui->ShowDate->currentText());

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but how do I access the QVariant?

I'm new to not only Qt, but c++ as well, so a small snippit showing how to put, say dataList[0] into a lable...

ui->label->setText(<however to get dataList[0] in here>);

ui->label->setText(<however to get dataList[0] in here>);

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Qt version 4.5