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From: ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
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Subject: Re: StringToReal?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 11:14:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: han@apple.COM's message of 11 Jan 90 16:56:45 GMT


Byron Han, of Apple, writes:

>In article <18429@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John 
>Boswell) writes:
>> the dialog box (GetItext, or some
>> such thing), puts the data into a STRING variable.  I unfortunately need a 
>> REAL value here!  There would be no problem if I needed an integer, since
>> StringToNum would do the trick (I guess).  Does anyone know if there is
>> a similar function to convert to a real-type value? 
>
>In the SANE package, there is a routine, Str2Num which converts a string 
>to a number.

There's a problem with this, surely. Str2Num expects the decimal point to be
a point (full stop). In some countries, it may be a comma etc, so Str2Num
will not be appropriate, and more fancy things will be needed from the Script
Manager package.  

Comments?

Ralph