>Cetin,
>
>Floating point numbers are not stored the same as integers, so no that code won't work.
>
>>Maybe I'm missing something but wouldn't it be something like this :

nValue = 0
>>for ix=1 to nBytes
>>  nValue = nValue + asc(substr(cString,ix))*256^(ix-1)
>>endfor

Cetin
Oooops. You're right. Thanks for warning.
Cetin