[REBOL] Re: math operations
From: carl:cybercraft at: 4-Aug-2001 13:34
On 04-Aug-01, john wrote:
> I have an HTML form serving numeric fields to a REBOL script and
> everything works fine, until I attempt any minor math function. It
> is reading the fields as a string.
> All these codes returned the variables set from the HTML, and failed
> at the multiplication with an error message that there is no value
> data is a string.
> _______________
> a: cgi/a
> b: cgi/b
> print a
> print b
> print multiply a b <-- failed here
> ________________
> a: cgi/a
> b: cgi/b
> print a
> print b
> sum: func [a b] [a * b] <--failed here
> sum a*b
> ____________________
> Any help?
Convert your values to decimals or integers? ie...
a: to-decimal cgi/a
> john
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Carl Read
