Casting Symbol to Float or Int

[Raghuram]

How can i typecast a symbol to float.
Example:
I have `1234 and i need to typecast the same to int or float.

I tried this
"f"$`1234
and i got error saying `type

[Tim Rieder]

"F"$string`1234

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[Raghuram]

Thanks a lot it worked.
I have one more question
Whats the difference between "F"$0 and "f"$0

Raghu

On Nov 9, 11:45 am, Tim Rieder <trie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "F"$string`1234
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Raghuram <gpraghu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How can i typecast a symbol to float.
> > Example:
> > I have `1234 and i need to typecast the same to int or float.
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> > I tried this
> > "f"$`1234
> > and i got error saying `type
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[hlivni]

upper case letter is used to parse strings. lower case letter is used
to type cast

/ parse string into float
q) "F"$"23.54"
23.54
/type cast real into float
q)type
23.54e
-8h
q)type
"f"$23.54e
-9h

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[Charles Skelton]

q)"F"$string `1234                                                                                                         

1234f

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