topic Re: How to convert numbers to string values in Libraries & objects

How to convert numbers to string values

tsturm — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:04:39 GMT

Can anyone out there tell me how they would convert a number value to a string value?

I need to change numbers into text so that I can combine text strings in the TEXT2 command.

What can be done?

for example...

I want to have the text from the file name "TYP B00 3D" read as "B12 3D"

I have set up a series of string commands to break the name into different parameters.

Thus there is
textparts=SPLIT(part_name, "%s %s%n %n%s", junk, cab, cabsize, drawernum, cabtyp)

junk= !TYP
cab= ! B
cabsize=00
drawernum=3
cabtyp= ! D
A=12

TEXT2 0, 0, cab+A+" "+drawernum+cabtyp

Problem is this express has syntax errors. I need to change the "A" and "drawernum" parameters into text values.

How can this be done?

TIA

Re: How to convert numbers to string values

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:53:00 GMT

tsturm wrote:
Problem is this express has syntax errors. I need to change the "A" and "drawernum" parameters into text values. How can this be done?

Take a look at the STR function. For example, if A has the value 123, the expression STR(A, 3, 0) changes it to the string "123".

Re: How to convert numbers to string values

tsturm — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:57:12 GMT

Is it true that the SPLIT command will change numbers written as string into numbers?

For example the expression of

stringtext=134.56
SPLIT(stringtext," %n", stringnumber)

Then I would get a number instead of text?

TIA

Re: How to convert numbers to string values

Ralph Wessel — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:33:26 GMT

tsturm wrote:
Is it true that the SPLIT command will change numbers written as string into numbers?

For example the expression of
stringtext=134.56
SPLIT(stringtext," %n", stringnumber)
Then I would get a number instead of text?

TIA

Close - try something like this:

strVal = "123.45"
numVal = 0
howMany = split(strVal, "%n", numVal)

You will end up with the numeric equivalent of 'strVal' in 'numVal', and 'howMany' should be 1 to tell you that one value was extracted from the string.

Re: How to convert numbers to string values

tsturm — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:03:51 GMT

I think that I now have a better understanding of how to change numbers into text and back again.

Now if GS would just make a STRING command to simply toggle the stuff around I would not need to type out things such as

part_num=159684
part_name=STR(part_num, 7, 0)

to change numbers to text.

How about a command like STNT(number) to change numbers to text and STTN(string) to change text to numbers.

Perhaps.