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Re: Changing String to Real

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  • Subject: [mg41063] Re: [mg41031] Changing String to Real
  • From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:25:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Apply ToExpression to the result of StringTake. 

Tomas Garza
Mexico City
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Uli Wuerfel" <uli.wuerfel at fmf.uni-freiburg.de>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg41063] [mg41031] Changing String to Real


> 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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