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Section: Input/Ouput Functions
Converts a string to a number. The general syntax for its use is
x = str2num(string)
Here string
is the data string, which contains the data to be converted into a number. The output is in double precision, and must be typecasted to the appropriate type based on what you need. Note that by definition, str2num
is entirely equivalent to eval(['[' string ']'],[])
with all of the associated problems where string
contains text that causes side effects.