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String to number

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  • Subject: [mg73174] String to number
  • From: José Carlos Santos <jcsantos at fc.up.pt>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 03:19:04 -0500 (EST)

Hi all:

The ToString command generates a string from an expression. Is there a
similar command which generates numbers from strings? What I mean by
this is: is there a command (let's call it ToNumber) such that

ToNumber["12"]

generates the number 12?

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos


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