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<paragraph id="par_id3153345" role="paragraph">Use the <literal>Val</literal> function to convert a string that represents a number into numeric data type.</paragraph>
<note id="par_id281641235880765">The string passed to the <literal>Val</literal> function is locale-independent. This means that commas are interpreted as thousands separators and a dot is used as the decimal separator.</note>
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<paragraph id="par_id3149514" role="bascode">Val (Text As String)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3154348" role="paragraph"><emph>Text:</emph> String that represents a number.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149670" role="paragraph">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 then <literal>Val</literal> returns 0.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341083008" role="bascode" localize="false"> MsgBox Val("123.1") + 1 ' 124.1</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id131641236938068"> ' Below 123,1 is interpreted as 1231 since "," is the thousands separator</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341083014" role="bascode" localize="false"> MsgBox Val("123,1") + 1 ' 1232</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id681641252873197"> ' All numbers are considered until a non-numeric character is reached</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id821641252904470" localize="false"> MsgBox Val("123.4A") ' 123.4</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id911641237027667"> ' The example below returns 0 (zero) since the string provided does not start with a number</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341081760" role="bascode" localize="false"> MsgBox Val("A123.123") ' 0</paragraph>
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