Re: A newbie question

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> If I read a record from a file with gets it is stored in a sequence, one
> character per element.  If part of the record represents numeric data,
> e.g. a dollar amount, how can I convert the slice of the sequence
> containing "12.34" into the number 12.34 so that I can do arithmetic
> with it?

> Thanks,
> Philip.

Hi,

include get.e
constant string="12.34"
atom number
number = value(string)

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