parseNumber

1.001.001.501.000.50

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Description

Description:

An SQF equivalent of C++ atof function. Parses the string, interpreting its content as a floating point number.

The command first discards as many whitespace characters as necessary until the first non-whitespace character is found. Then, starting from this character, takes as many characters as possible that are valid following a syntax resembling that of floating point literals, and interprets them as a numerical value. The rest of the string after the last valid character is ignored and has no effect on the behavior of this command.

If the first sequence of non-whitespace characters in string does not form a valid floating-point number, or if no such sequence exists because either string is empty or contains only whitespace characters, no conversion is performed and the command returns 0.

Groups:

Strings

Syntax

Syntax:

parseNumber string

Parameters:

string: String

Return Value:

Number

1.50

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

parseNumber boolean

Parameters:

boolean: Boolean

Return Value:

Number - 0 if false, 1 if true

Examples

Example 1:

_number = parseNumber "0.125"; // 0.125

Example 2:

_number = parseNumber "0050"; // 50

Example 3:

_number = parseNumber "2 abc"; // 2

Example 4:

_number = parseNumber true; // 1

Additional Information

See also:

BIS_fnc_parseNumber

Notes

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Posted on Aug 28, 2014

ffur2007slx2_5

(A3 1.26)It only detects the first occurrence of a number in the string, return 0 by default.

parseNumber "2s4f"; // 2 parseNumber "s2f4"; // 0

parse config or code, currently BIS_fnc_parseNumber, occurrence is only limited with number, return -1 by default. {s3s4f} call BIS_fnc_parseNumber; // -1

Posted on April 5, 2021 - 14:56 (UTC)

R3vo

This command does not work with strings representing hexadecimal numbers:

parseNumber "0xCF"; //Returns 0