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Changing String to Real

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• Subject: [mg41031] Changing String to Real
• From: Uli Wuerfel <uli.wuerfel at fmf.uni-freiburg.de>
• Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 05:26:07 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi there,
we import a data file and want to extract a number from a string like 
e.g. Uoc:0.752
Of course we can extract 0.752 with Stringtake but we need to calculate 
with this number. How can we make Mathematica to understand it as a real 
number??
Thank you for any kind of help,
Uli

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