Beginner: string to long

[Dinu C. Gherman]

hudson_melville at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> I'm a very beginner, and I have a program with
> nested loops that put numeric operators (+,-) in
> a string of numbers ('3564752617') The outputs
> are similar to '3564-752+617' How do I convert it
> so it can evaluate into a long integer? Is there
> a built-in that I don't know about that would do
> this?

eval('long(3564-752+617)')
3429L

Is this what you mean?

Dinu

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