converting String to number?

Posted by Adam Cliffe on
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Hi,

I'm trying to extract some information from an XML file. I can get the
part I want as a string
but I'd like to convert it to a number so I can use it later.


Here's an example

        XMLtext="Variant=0.03140118509446um";

        step=substring(XMLtext,8,24);

        output=parseFloat(step);
        print(output,"should be",step);

        storage=newArray(1);
        storage[0]= output;


So using parseFloat I end up with 0.314

does anyone know of a way to increase the number of decimal places?
(or a better way of doing this?)

thanks

Adam




Dr Adam Cliffe
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