1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3226a8927SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4923b75a4Smseidel * 5226a8927SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6226a8927SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7226a8927SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8226a8927SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9226a8927SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10226a8927SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11226a8927SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12923b75a4Smseidel * 13226a8927SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14923b75a4Smseidel * 15226a8927SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16226a8927SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17226a8927SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18226a8927SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19226a8927SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20226a8927SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21923b75a4Smseidel * 22226a8927SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23226a8927SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03120104xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Val Function [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120104.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="val"> 33*36faf8a5Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149205"> 34*36faf8a5Smseidel<bookmark_value>Val function</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153345" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Converts a string to a numeric expression.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149514" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Val (Text As String)</paragraph> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Double</paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156024" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154348" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Text:</emph> String that represents a number.</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154365" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleVal</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159150" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">msgbox Val("123.123")</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">msgbox Val("A123.123")</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147229" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">end Sub</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 56