Subj : Reading from file
To   : Merlin
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Sep 03 2002 03:08 pm

 Re: Reading from file
 By: Merlin to All on Tue Sep 03 2002 11:44 pm

> I've written a program and am reading data from a file using the
> fread_line command.
>
> ~the data in the file line by line goes like
>
> 1
> 3
> 4
> Merlin
> CarSo Bs
> 2
> 3
> 4
> Pamela
> Beverley, UK
> 3
> 4
> 5
> Name
> Location
>
> etc, each user record is 5 lines. I can read the lines in okay with fread_li
> but I need to convert the numbers from character  strings to integers.
> Is there a command to convert a string to an integer or
> is there an easier way to do it?

Just use the COPY function, it will convert from str to int (or vice versa)
automatically.

                                                digital man

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