To change a string to a number, I use this: foo = foo - 0; HTH Tim in Ireland. PS What on earth does your subject line mean ? ----- Original Message ----- From: J.R. Pitts To: javascript at LaTech.edu Sent: 28 June 2003 04:34 Subject: [Javascript] type casting... I don't usually do javascript, but every now and then.... I am doing some time math. I use the following statement to convert a time string (ie...15:30) to a total number of minutes (ie..930) endMinutes=endTime.substring(0,2)*60 + endTime.substring(3,5)*1 I have to use the ending "*1" to cast the the ending string to a number, so that I get '930' instead of a string concatenation (90030) Works fine, but what is the proper javascript way to do this? Thanks, J.R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Javascript mailing list Javascript at LaTech.edu https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20030628/5eee458d/attachment.htm>