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From: jedivaughn <jedivaughn14@gmail.com>
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Subject: determining input data type
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:48:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi, How is the best way to determine the type of input. I have the
input coming in through a string but if the contents of the string is
an integer then I want to convert it to such. This seems like it
should be very easy to do but I can't seem to find out how to do it
any where.


Thanks,

John