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How to change string to number (int) ?

Started by mibac138, 26 May 2013 - 01:09 PM

mibac138 #1

128 posts

Location Poland

Posted 26 May 2013 - 03:09 PM

As I say in topic, my question is: How to change string to number?

Please help!

Xenthera #2

167 posts

Posted 26 May 2013 - 03:20 PM

tonumber(string)

mibac138 #3

128 posts

Location Poland

Posted 26 May 2013 - 03:24 PM

ohhhh, thanks forgot about this :/

theoriginalbit #4

7508 posts

Location Australia

Posted 26 May 2013 - 11:16 PM

also it should be noted that the `tonumber` function can also accept a radix.


tonumber( [string], [radix] )

So something like

tonumber("f", 16)

would convert the hexadecimal `f` (base-16) into decimal `15` (base-10)