On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 3:35:21 PM UTC-8, Seth wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 3:27:59 PM UTC-8, J Luis wrote: >> >> I crossed this behavior when converting a C code that used atoi() and >> atof() >> >> julia> a="12" >> "12" >> >> This is fine, we get the number >> >> julia> float(a) >> 12.0 >> >> but now, surprise, we get the ASCII code >> >> julia> float(a[2]) >> 50.0 >> > > This is because a[2] returns Char, which is then evaluated as int 50, as > you observed. To get the presumably desired behavior (2.0), > > float(string(a[2])) > > should work. > >
I forgot to add: float(a[2:2]) will also work, as a range subscript produces a string.
