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Re: type casting

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• Subject: [mg39844] Re: type casting
• From: "Steve Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 02:51:15 -0500 (EST)
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You can do lots of useful things with ToExpression, which takes any string
and converts it into the corresponding Mathematica expression. For instance.
ToExpression["1.23"] will return the real number 1.23, and
ToExpression["2/7"] will return the rational number 2/7, and so on. You can
then manipulate and output these expressions in any way that you please.

--
Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK

"Tolonen, Ellen N" <entolonen at utep.edu> wrote in message
news:b49nga$fef$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello.
>
> I am I new Mathematica user and am trying to master input/output.  Is
there
> any way to type cast a string into number format?
>
>
> Ellen Tolonen
> entolonen at utep.edu
>