Re: Is converting string to integer possible?

[Carl Troein <carl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry writes:

> Hi
> 
> I have 2 text columns VARCHAR 50 and I put a date in them in format
> 
> yyyymmddhhmmss

MySQL does have a DATETIME type, which would probably be better
suited to your needs.

> Is there a way to force string to be read as interger (same as CINT in
> VBScript, but I need to to this in mySQL).

Yes, string_expression+0 will be an integer. It's not pretty, but it
works.

//C

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