convert strings in a file to integer

I got a file with a lot of numbers that are strings. I'd like to read all
this numbers and convert them to numbers for futher compareation. How can I
convert all this numbers to integer?

regards
frengky

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Re: convert strings in a file to integer

�stein Western wrote:

> I got a file with a lot of numbers that are strings. I'd like to read all
> this numbers and convert them to numbers for futher compareation. How can
> I convert all this numbers to integer?
>
> regards
> frengky
>

Hi

Easiest way: Use some sciptinglanguage.
PHP or Perl or something like that.
(I prefer PHP)

Just open the file, get the numbers out, and create a whole bunch of
INSERTS.
Then execute.

In PHP, use the file() command to retrieve all the lines in an array.
for example:
(Some fantasycode)

$myLines = file("/home/stein/somenumbers.txt");
$SQL = "";
for($i=0;$i $myNum = (int)$myLines($i);
SQL .= "INSERT INTO tblnumbers (anumber) VALUES (".$myNum.");\n";
}

pg_execute($SQL);
or
echo replace("\n","
",$SQL);


Something like that.

Good luck!
Regards,
Erwin Moller