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Re: parsing a txt file

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Nov 25, 2004
• 682 views

spent memory wrote:
> 
> i am reading into my program a text file. in this text file i seek to
> a certain line and assign 1 of my variables the value which happens to
> be 20. however when i goto use this variable later i get a type check
> failure saying the variable is {50,48,10}. I know this converts to 20
> but i have forgotten how to convert it so that i can use it. can
> someone please remind me. thanks
> 
> 
use

var = value(in)

in is your input, var will be a two-element sequence with the first element
being an error value and the second element being the number you are actually
interested in.

Refer to the library reference for value.

j.