Re: Changing String to Real
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg41037] Re: [mg41031] Changing String to Real
- From: "Y.A.Tesiram" <yas at pcomm.hfi.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, Try ToExpression Yas On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Uli Wuerfel wrote: > 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 > > >