Date: 2009nov26 Language: perl Q. How do I convert a text (ASCII) string to an integer? A. This does the trick;

$text = '123'; $n = $text + 0;

But you should check that $text is a valid number. Attempts to turn non-numbers (eg 'hello') into numbers gives you 0. This function gives undef for non-numbers.

sub asciiToInt($) { my($text) = @_; my($n); if ($text =~ m/^\d+$/) { $n = $text + 0; } return $n; }

There is also hex() and oct() for converting base 16 and 8 numbers strings into numbers.