Thanks Sergey, Look at Borrislav's results, I just don't get it...



Hi Tracy,
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>During VFP9 beta I loged request to expand CAST() help topic with explanation how each type of conversion works but it was ignored by VFP team. W/o such documentation the result of conversation in many cases cannot be predicted or explained.
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>>Just curious, Sergey do you know why CAST works where VAL does not? Specifically a string with "2E" in it? I understand why VFP sees it as scientific notation, but CAST does not...
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>>lcvalue = "2E828"
>>lcvalue1 = "200"
>>? VAL(lcvalue)  && produces numeric overflow
>>? CAST(lcvalue as Int)  && returns 0
>>? VAL(lcvalue1)   && returns 200
>>? CAST(lcvalue1 as Int)  && returns 200
>>tclocation = "2E818 Main St"
>>? CAST(GETWORDNUM(tclocation,1) AS INT)
>>tclocation = "2010 N Main St"
>>? CAST(GETWORDNUM(tclocation,1) AS INT)
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>>>>How do I convert character into integer? Please help. Thanks, Sam
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>>>lcString = "12345"
>>>? CAST(lcString AS int)
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