How to do type casting at VBScript?

[Aaron Bertrand]

if clng(a)=clng(b) then
' say yes
else
' say no
end if

OR

if cstr(a)=cstr(b) then
' say yes
else
' say no
end if

Of course, you could just do this to being with:

a = 1
b = 1

Why do you cast one as a string and the other as a number?

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[Carfield Yim]

How to do type casting at VBScript? e.g.:

Dim a
Dim b

a = "1"
b = 1

if (a = b)
.......

How can I make it legal?

[Angus Graham]

Assuming a is always a string and b is always an integer, either:

If val(a)=b then

or

if a=str(b) then

or if a or be can be either

if str(a)=str(b)

Also, probably best to trim just in case so

if trim(str(a)) = trim(str(b))

or

if val(a) =val(b)

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