convert string in a number

Posted by Luis Isaac Ramos Garcia on Aug 10, 2010; 10:53am
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   Dear;


    I would like to use a metadata from a image for some calculation.
The problem is that this data appears as a string, in my case "1460".
    So for make algebraic operation I need to convert it in a number
"1460"->1460. Is it possible in macro language?

    Thanks a lot,

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