<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03120104xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Val Function [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120104.xhp</filename> </topic> </meta> <body> <section id="val"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149205"><bookmark_value>Val function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149205" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120104.xhp" name="Val Function [Runtime]">Val Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153345" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Converts a string to a numeric expression.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149514" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Val (Text As String)</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Double</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156024" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154348" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> <emph>Text:</emph> String that represents a number.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Using the Val function, you can convert a string that represents numbers into numeric expressions. This is the inverse of the <emph>Str</emph> function. If only part of the string contains numbers, only the first appropriate characters of the string are converted. If the string does not contain any numbers, the <emph>Val</emph> function returns the value 0.</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154365" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleVal</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159150" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">msgbox Val("123.123")</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">msgbox Val("A123.123")</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147229" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">end Sub</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>