Re: text to number 2
On 28 Jan 2002, at 4:58, dmccu at connect.ab.ca wrote:
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> 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.
{"-","1","2",".","2"} is a nested sequence.
"-12.2" ( or {-12.2} if you like) is what you need to val() with.
Simply get the -12.5 as "-12.5" to start with, or make a pass thru the nested
sequence, adding the pieces to one un-nested sequence, then val(un-nested
sequence).
Kat
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