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Jul 10.2004

I know you could use:

[code]eval(form.screen.value);[/code]

(where “form” is the name of the form and “screen” is the name of a number input type in the form) to get whatever is in that field as a number, but how do you get it as a string?

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@NedalsJul 10.2004 — string = document.formname.elementname.value; // always returns a string

eval not required.
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@PyrusauthorJul 11.2004 — Thank you so much, that little thing was holding back my progress.
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@fredmvJul 12.2004 — Oh, and you almost never need [font=courier]eval[/font]. It's quite costly for the interpreter, so avoid it. Instead to convert strings to numbers use one of the methods as described in [url=http://www.webxpertz.net/forums/showthread.php?t=27948]this thread[/url].
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