Depending on what you are doing you may want to test the value first to
ensure it's a number. You can get hard errors in some cases for data type
mismatch... like in queries.
<cfif IsNumeric(myvar is "true>
DO YOUR THING
</cfif>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 4:57 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: coverting string to a numeric value
> is there a way I can convert a string to number in coldfusion. I could not
see any related functions to do this?
ColdFusion is very loosely typed, so you don't need to convert a
string to a number. Just use it a numeric operation and it gets
treated as a number. Try it, it's fun!
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