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From: han@apple.COM (Byron Han, Project Scapegoat)
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Subject: Re: StringToReal?
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Date: 11 Jan 90 16:56:45 GMT
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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.

Hope this helps.

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