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Re: floats from strings... duh! [message #4356 is a reply to message #4355]

Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00

rivers
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In article <3q4tku$iqu@dux.dundee.ac.uk>, pjclinch@dux.dundee.ac.uk (Pete Clinch) writes:
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious... want to do the equivalent of a
> C sscanf or atof on a string I've got in a PV~Wave program that has a
> floating point number in string form.
>
> Rather than write my own function to convert "1.234" to 1.234, is there a
> way in the system to do it easily?
>

Use the float() function. It can handle string input.

print, float('1.234')
1.23400

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		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: phil on Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: rivers on Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: thompson on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: afl on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00
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