Re: Variables - Integer vs. Character

<Jeremy>
>   add zero to your sum to force a string to be a number or
>   add an empty string to force a number to become a string
>ie:
>   i = totalCost + 0;  // or
>   i = totalCost + "";
>The former is what you could use now, but you might want to remember
>the latter for future use. In other languages, you could typecast
>the variable:
>   i = (int)totalCost;
>Unfortunately, I can't remember if that works in javascript.

Typecasting doesn't work in Javascript as in other languages, to my
knowledge. Using a 0 or piece of string is what I had used in the past that
seemed to work, but didn't in this case.

I *did* figure out a solution, however. I had to use parseInt() on the
values from the form, before adding them to total. Plus, I had started off
a variable "base" but used quotes where I shouldn't.  ( base="1025"; )
which of course made 1025 a string and not an int. Doh!

Just losing the quotes didn't work, I had to also use the parseInt(), but,
now it seems to be working.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

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