Re: Getting numeric value of a alphabetic string

What do you mean by string of letters?

are you talking about this?

$nums = "123";
$val = $nums * 1;
print ("Value = $val\n");
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Re^2: Getting numeric value of a alphabetic string by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2005 at 06:56 UTC
Thanks for the posting. Sorry for not being clearer. By string of letters i meant a name like "V$CEBPA". So if I can convert this string to a numerical value, I can use it to generate the color which will be unique to this identifier. Thanks Nagesh	[reply]
Re^3: Getting numeric value of a alphabetic string by sk (Curate) on Aug 05, 2005 at 07:01 UTC
Thanks. I completely missed the point! Please see Zaxo's post. You can basically attach a key to a value in a hash. Which should give what you want -SK	[reply]