VAL converts a string to a decimal number. For example, VAL("10") will return 10. The function parses the string from the left and returns the longest number it can read, stopping at the first non-suitable character it finds.

Incidentally, this function is the opposite of STR , which converts a number to a string.

string can contain negative numbers or hex numbers when preceded by a $.

VAL does only INTEGER interpretation

20xa211   20

• similar to Visual BASIC -- VB ignores space and tab characters during the parsing and allows &H or &O
• similar to formatting directives DEC, HEX in PBASIC

• STR
  
• HEX
  
• CHR