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Re: A newbie question

• Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <patrat at INAME.COM> Sep 12, 2000
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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)

Hi,
That should have been:

include get.e
constant string="12.34"
object number
number = value(string)
--number now equals {error status,value} or {GET_SUCCESS,12.34}
if number[1] = GET_SUCCESS then
   --success
   number = number[2]
   ? number
else
    --failed
end if

Thanks to CK Lester for pointing this out :)

Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
http://www.ratsoft.freeserve.co.uk/
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Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
http://www.ratsoft.freeserve.co.uk/
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