OpenEuphoria

Re: text to number 2

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Jan 27, 2002
• 432 views

Try this:

sequence original, final
original = {"-","1","2",".","2"}
final= {}

for n = 1 to length(original) do
  final &= original[n]
end for

puts (1, final) 

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:58 PM
Subject: text to number 2


> 
> ok,  I have reviewed the value library function for converting a 
> sequence to a number,  but how do you get a sequence like 
> {"-","1","2",".","2"}  to be {"-12.2"} as the function needs it to be?  
> Or am I missing something obvious?  I need to make a file filter and I 
> need to be able to convert back and forth regularly from string to 
> numeric. 
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