If a user passes in a text string that contains numbers, you can use cInt to change those values from a text type to a numeric type.

So let's say you have

ItemBought = "14 cats"

You could parse out the left side of that text string so that you end up with

ItemCt = "14"

but you can't actually do math calculations with that, because it is a string of characters, not an actual number. So to turn that into a number value, you would use:

ItemNum = cInt(ItemCt)

ASP Math and Number Functions

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