1. Re: Text to Number
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Apr 24, 2002
You should use the value() function.
----- Original Message -----
From: <2anmagudi at infovia.com.ar>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Text to Number
>
> >
> > How does one convert a text sequence to a number in Euphoria?
> >
> > In working with EX07.EXW in the Win32 examples, text entered by the user
> > in the dialog box Sle1 is retrieved using the function getText(). I
> > assume this returns a sequence of ASCII characters. If I want to confine
> > the user's input to a numeric range from 0 to n, how do I do this? In
> > BASIC we would use a = VAL(x$).
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
>
> that's what i think you're trying to explain you can't do and there is the
> answer:
>
> sequence xs, junk
> integer xi
>
> xs = "341.7" -- the value as a sting
> junk = value(xs) -- i'm taking the value of xs
> xi = junk[2] -- value() returns a sequence -> {ERRORLEVEL,VALUE}
>
> it should helps you...
>
> Best Regards,
> Gustavo Bottegoni
> AKA: Philip
>
>
>
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