Re: String to Number
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- Subject: [mg27177] Re: String to Number
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:10:23 -0500 (EST)
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Steffen: In[128]:= ToExpression[{StringTake["06:42",2],StringTake["06:42",-2]}] Out[128]= {6, 42} -- Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 <steffenz at server2.fo.FH-Koeln.DE> wrote in message news:95tq99$m8c at smc.vnet.net... > Hi > > I read a time from a file (this format 06:42) as a string. > > I would like to convert this string into to numbers (6 and 42). > > any suggestions? > > Thanks > > Steffen > > > Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Zozgornik > > Institut fur Licht- und Bautechnik > an der Fachhochschule Koeln > Gremberger Strasse 151 a > D - 51105 Koeln > > Tel.: +49 - 221 - 83 10 95 > Fax.: +49 - 221 - 83 55 13 > >