Convert string to number?

[Roger Hunter]

I need to convert characters to a number. I'm using F95 and it says an internal read can do it but I get a TYPE error.

In TrueBasic the VAL function does it but F95, what?

Also, is there a skip format descriptor? It used to be x, as in a10,5x,i4 but now?

I'm trying to extract values from a file of long character strings.

Roger

[Roger Hunter]

Never mind, I found it. x does work.

Roger