Dear Ananth, you can also use..
Math.abs(string); --------> to get the number which is one of the prototypes method. However, the beauty of the javascript is that ....it automatically typecaste's the varible declared to number or string.. depending on the usage .. could you tell me , where it went wrong (i mean typcasting) ?? On Apr 25, 10:37 am, Ananth Raghuraman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for pointing me to the native functions! > In the meantime I also found 1.8 has the Number object/function. > I just did Number(mynumberstring) to convert mynumberstring to a number. > I guess Number also accepts an object or another Number as argument.. > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:02 AM, RobG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 25, 2:06 am, Ananth Raghuraman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Need prototype function to convert object/string/number to number. Please > > > help. > > > Without a more concise specification for what the object/string/number > > might be, you will end up with a large function that works for a few > > scenarios invented by the author and fails for anything else. > > > It doesn't make sense to have a function to convert a number to a > > number. > > > -- > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
