STV string to long questions

[evilpenguin]

Basically what i'm trying to do is write a long type to the properties file and then read it out and do some math to it. So... how do I do that

[MeInMaui]

I vaguely recall that if you multiply by 1, the data type will be converted from a string to the appropriate numeric type in the variable you write the value to. I guess you can just work with the new variable from there on.

Something like:

temp = GetProperty() * 1

I don't know if this answers your question or not. Of course I am probably totally wrong anyway...

Mike

[GKusnick]

Read this:

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...91&postcount=5

[Opus4]

Multiplying by one is all that should need to be done, though, since the property is read in as a string and I had no problem getting a large number represented as a string to be converted to a long via ("number" * 1).

I suppose if the number might be small, you may need to force it to be a long, so just use the GetProperty() call as the single parameter to java_lang_Long_parseLong():

java_lang_Long_parseLong( GetProperty() )

I would think that would do it in all cases.

- Andy

[evilpenguin]

Perfect, thanks guys