Description: This function takes a value and returns a different type of value, if possible.
Returns: Numeric
Usage: Script or Steady State
Format: Cast(Val, Type)
Parameters: Val { text } { required } { no default: }
Any variable name.
Type { numeric } { required } { no default: }
A number indicating what type of value should be returned.
Comments: This function performs a type-cast, changing one type of value to another. Note that values that are converted to integers are truncated, rather than rounded.
If a stream longer than 65,523 characters is cast to a text string, it will be truncated at 65,523 characters.
Example:
xFloat = 2.61;
xInt = Cast(xFloat, 1);
The value of xInt will be set to 2.
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