BL>   If I go val('223 Sheep Street'); I get zero and a fault at 4. Val
 BL> can't handle the Sheep.


 PL> Val is good for checking if the string entered in is an integer..

 PL> ie

 PL> var
 PL> CheckNum: string;
 PL> Number,ErrorCode: integer;

 PL> begin
 PL> WriteLn('Enter Number');
 PL> ReadLn(CheckNum);
 PL> val (CheckNum,Number,ErrorCode);
 PL> if ErrorCode = 1 then
 PL> WriteLn('Not an integer');
 PL> end.

  What a good idea! I'd never thought of using Val the other way.

 PL> Other than that the only way to convert your string to an
 PL> integer is to make sure that the string is an integer anyway.
 PL> Your function isn't that slow is it??

  (grin) It's as fast as I can make it, but I use it too often. It
looks like I'll have to turn it around so that I staret with integers
and convert some of them to strings, rather than the other way around.

Regards,
Bob
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