String to number conversion

[Jan_HeG]

Hi,

This should be simple, but I can't figure out a good conversion methout "rube-goldberging" my code.

As I have tried to demonstrate above I am trying to get numbers from the end of a string. 

1) The string can be any length, and contain any characters.

2) There can be any amount of other numbers in the string, these are not of interest.

3) There will always be atleast one "normal" character inforont of the number I want.

I have a feeling the scan from string function will do what I want, but I can't figure out the right format string I should use as a input...

Anyone here have any good ideas? 

[Somil]

Hi

what i have understood is, that you want the Numbers which are at the end of the string.

Is this what you want (see attached)

[Jan_HeG]

Yes, something like that is what I want, too bad it does not work 😉

Your code assumes that there is always one "number character" at the end of the string with known length, but both the amount of "number characters" and the length of my string is unkown... 

[Somil]

Are you sure that your string always ends with a number?

[Mathan]

[Jan_HeG]

Somil: yes, that is the just about the only safe assumption I can make...

Mathan: Close! But if there are numbers in the string that are not at the end, those numbers is what I get..

Message Edited by Jan_HeG on 10-28-2009 05:25 AM

[TCPlomp · Accepted solution]

Regular expressions are your friend:

Use [0-9]+$ as the regular expression. The dollar sign ($) will look for the match only if it are the last characters of the string.

Ton

Message Edited by TCPlomp on 28-10-2009 11:26 AM

[Rod42]

Assuming that you have purely the digits 0-9 at the end of string, you can pre-process the strinh with "match pattern" using regular expression "[0-9]*$". This will match any number of characters chosen from the range 0 to 9 at the end of the string.

The match substring output is the number, so decimal string to number will then get the number into an integer.

Rod.

[thirupathi]

thank you, i tried so much to know string to dbl.

now i got.

[nids]

can i convert dbl again to the string after inserting dbl in to an array.