You're right..... I guess it's not such a big deal to do as you suggest.....
I've spent the last half hour messing around with the Float Manager
(It can handle larger numbers and the Float Manager has string conversion
functions.... but dealing with floats seems a little clumsy on the palm.....)
Thanks for your help!
Dan
Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > Judging by the lack of emails in the archive on this matter, I have a feeling
> > that I'm being an idiot.... In any event :
> >
> > How do I convert a string like "123456789" and store it as a numeric? I can't use
>StrAToI
> > since integers max out at 65535.
>
> why not??
>
> break it up into two strings.. and then two words..
>
> ie: StrAToI("12345") * 10000 + StrAToI("6789");
>
> to be on the safe side, assume your numbers are 4 characters wide
> 0..9999 :)) and it should work!!
>
> cheers
>
> // az
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