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September 13th, 2005, 11:10 AM

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Extracting an Integer from a string

Simple question:

I read in a string from a file "123", how do I convert it to a the integer 123?

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dim i as integer
i = myString

PS:use error handling in case myString is not a number
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Look up help on the Val() function.

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