topic Re: No conversion from string to numerical? in Libraries & objects

No conversion from string to numerical?

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:58:41 GMT

Hi guys,
Is it possible to convert a string variable to a numerical value in GDL?
I know it is possible to convert a numerical to a string, but what about the other way? I cannot seem to find any such command.

Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:23:06 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Hi guys,
Is it possible to convert a string variable to a numerical value in GDL?
I know it is possible to convert a numerical to a string, but what about the other way? I cannot seem to find any such command.

Hi Laszlo,

SPLIT function should do the trick.

string = "3 pieces 2x5 beam"
n = split (string, "%n pieces %nx%n %s", num, string1, size1, string2, size2, name)

print num, string1, size1, string2, size2, name

print vartype(num), vartype(string1), vartype(size1), vartype(string2), vartype(size2), vartype(name)
!!! 1 numeric, 2 string

Cheers,
Olivier

Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:06:29 GMT

I would like to add, that if you call
SPLIT( "3.45", "%n", X)
it returns X=3.45!

Cheers,
Leo

Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:37:09 GMT

Thanks guys,
I knew there must have been something.
I have not used this command for a very long time.

Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:53:19 GMT

You are welcome, new horrible moderator !

What a pity I couldn't recommend you a function for converting strings (for example) to your daytime and stamina

Good luck,
Leo

Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Djordje — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:09:01 GMT

Leo wrote:
You are welcome, new horrible moderator !

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Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:22:12 GMT

Djordje wrote:
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Re: No conversion from string to numerical?

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:18:15 GMT

Thanks.