Re: Changing String to Real
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- Subject: [mg41061] Re: Changing String to Real
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:24:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Uli,
try ToExpression[]
x = StringTake["Uoc:0.752", {5, 7}];
y = ToExpression[x];
y
0.7
1/y
1.42857
Regards,
Wolfgang
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
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