NUMERIC()

The NUMERIC() function converts a value to Numeric form.

Format

NUMERIC(expr)

where

The NUMERIC() function converts expr to numeric form, integer or floating point.

This function is rarely needed because all QMBasic operations requiring a numeric value perform the conversion automatically, however, if the value is used many times in a loop, there may be some performance advantage in converting it just once.

Traditionally multivalue Basic programs have performed this conversion by a statement of the form

N = X + 0

where the addition operator will convert the value of X to numeric form. The NUMERIC() function provides a neater and marginally more efficient way to do this.

Example

N = NUMERIC(X)

This statement converts X to numeric form.

 
See also:

BOOL(), INT(), STR()