Conversion Functions
A conversion function converts one data type or format to another data type or format. Use a conversion function to convert numbers to strings or strings to numbers. Conversion functions can be used with String and Number data types.
BinToInt
BinToInt(s): Converts the binary string s to an integer. It is limited to 53 bits of precision and can be up to 64 bits of length. It means that you can have, for example, a string that is 53 1-bits with 10 0-bits.
Example
BinToInt("101010101") results in 341.
If the string is exactly 32 or 64 characters long, it will be treated as a signed number:BinToInt("11111111111111111111111111111011") results in -5.
The leading signs ‘+’ and ‘-‘ take precedence over treating 32 and 64 characters as a signed number: BinToInt("-111") results in -7,
BinToInt("+111") results in 7.
All of following examples give the same value 9,223,372,036,854,774,784, or 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFC00:
BinToInt("111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101000000001") rounds up,
BinToInt("111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110000000000") exact,
BinToInt("111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111111111") rounds down.
CharFromInt
CharFromInt(x): Returns the Unicode® character that matches the input number x.
Example
CharFromInt(66) returns B (U+0042 'Latin Capital Letter B').
CharFromInt(169) returns © (U+00A9 'copyright sign').
CharFromInt(1071) returns Я (U+042F 'Cyrillic capital letter YA').
CharFromInt(127944) returns 
(U+1F3C8 'American football').
CharFromInt(0) returns [null] (U+000 'Null') because any integer that cannot be used to represent a character may give a null result.
CharFromInt(55300) returns [null] because any integer that does not currently represent a character will not be rendered by a normal font.
CharToInt
CharToInt(s): Returns the number that matches the input Unicode® character s.
Example
CharToInt("B") returns 66 (U+0042 'Latin Capital Letter B').
CharToInt("©") returns 169 (U+00A9 'copyright sign').
CharToInt("Я") returns 1071 (U+042F 'Cyrillic capital letter YA').
CharToInt() returns 127944 (U+1F3C8 'American football').
ConvertFromCodePage
ConvertFromCodePage(s, codePage): Translates text from a code page to Unicode. To learn more about code pages, visit the Code Pages documentation.
ConvertToCodePage
ConvertToCodePage(s, codePage): Translates text from Unicode® encoding to a specific code page. To learn more about code pages, visit the Code Pages documentation.
HexToNumber
HexToNumber(x): Converts a HEX string to a number (Limited to 53 bits).
Example
HexToNumber(dd) converts to the number 221.
IntToBin
IntToBin(x): Converts x to a binary string.
IntToHex
IntToHex(x): Converts x to a hexadecimal string.
ToNumber
ToNumber(x, [bIgnoreErrors], [keepNulls], [decimalSeparator]): Converts a string (x), to a number.
ToNumber accepts strings that can be interpreted as scientific notation double precision. By default, the period is used as the decimal separator.
Optional Parameters
bIgnoreErrors
- (default) 0 or false reports conversion error messages.
- 1 or true ignores conversion errors.
keepNulls
- (default) 0 or false converts non-numeric values (including null) to zero.
- 1 or true converts non-numeric values to null.
decimalSeparator: The decimal separator of the incoming string.
- (default) "." specifies a period as the decimal separator.
- "," specifies a comma as the decimal separator.
The decimalSeparator parameter ignores whatever is the designated thousands separator (space, period, comma) of the incoming string.
Examples
ToNumber("878") returns the string 878 as a number.
ToNumber("4.256411411E9") returns the string 4256411411 as a number.
ToNumber("Number", "false") returns 0 with conversion error: TONUMBER: Number lost information in conversion.
ToNumber("Number", 0, 0) returns 0 with conversion error: TONUMBER: Number lost information in conversion.
ToNumber("Number", 1, 0) returns 0 with no conversion error.
ToNumber("Number", 1, 1) returns [Null] and no conversion error.
ToNumber("123456,789", 1, 1, ",") returns 123456.789 as a number.
ToNumber("123.456,789", 1, 1, ",") returns 123456.789 as a number. This is because the period is automatically interpreted as the thousands separator, while the comma is specified as the decimal separator via decimalSeparator.
ToString
ToString(x, numDec, [addThousandsSeparator], [decimalSeparator]): Converts a numeric parameter (x) to a string using numDec decimal places. Default selection uses a period as the decimal separator.
Optional Parameters
addThousandsSeparator
- (default) 0 formats the numeric string without a thousands separator.
- 1 formats with a thousands separator. By default, the thousands separator is a comma unless "," is specified for
decimalSeparator, in which case the thousands separator is a period. - "," specifies a comma as the thousands separator.
- "." specifies a period as the thousands separator.
- " " specifies a space as the thousands separator.
- "'" specifies an apostrophe as the thousands separator.
decimalSeparator:
- (default) "." specifies the period as the decimal separator.
- "," specifies the comma as the decimal separator.
Examples
ToString(10, 0) returns 10 as a string.
ToString(10.4, 2) returns 10.40 as a string.
ToString(100.4, 2) returns 100.40 as a string.
ToString(1000.4, 2, 1) returns 1,000.40 as a string.
ToString(123456.789, 3, 1, ",") returns 123.456,789 as a string.
ToString(123456.789, 3, 0, ",") returns 123456,789 as a string.
ToString(1234567.89, 2, ".", ",") returns 1.234.567,89 as a string.
ToString(1234567.89, 2, " ", ",") returns 1 234 567,89 as a string.
ToString(1234567.89, 2, "'", ",") returns 1'234'567,89 as a string.