OpenEuphoria

Re: So...what if I wanted to do something like atof?

• Posted by Euman <euman at BELLSOUTH.NET> Dec 11, 2000
• 532 views

Try useing Value() to get the string conversion
sequence entered_num
entered_num = "1.2345" -- example

atom a
a = value(entered_num)
s = atom_to_float32(a)

That is if I'm right.
euman at bellsouth.net

BTW, Jiri said (past tense) RTFM.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonas <jktemple at USMO.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:08 PM
Subject: So...what if I wanted to do something like atof?


> First of all, since this is my first post to this server, let me say
> this... Do you know how many years it took me to get comfortable with
> C/C++? Do you know how many days it took me to get comfortable with
> Euphoria?  'nough said.
>
> Anyway, I have been working on a project using Euphoria and Win32Lib.  I
> have an edit control where I want the user to enter a price.  I want to
> convert and store that sequence as a floating point.  In C++ I would have
> probably used atof() to do that conversion.  What is the functional
> equivalent in Euphoria?
>
> Thanks for the help in advance.
>