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autoit doesn't work auto-interchangeably with Numbers and strings. to do the parsing I do, I have to work 1 char at a time or handle a whole integer string.

it might be in the middle of 2/2/2013 23:59:59.123 or 5 minutes for instance.  so I have a problem.

as soon as I do $ch=stringmid($str,$i,1) and it happens to be a "5" in 5min for instance, it converts the "5" to a Number. from then on, I can't process the string as a string and append chars with &= and have it still come out as a string, it comes out as a number as soon as it hits a digit during lexing.

is there a workaround to force it to be a string? if I want something to be a Number() or Int() I can always use those functions, but this is interfering with my kitchentimer.

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there is also a function, String() for converting numbers to string. You may find it helpful.

EDIT: It seems I have some misunderstanding, because I'm always in the same scenario but never faced any such problem.

It would be better if you show the code( or reproducer ).

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autoit doesn't work auto-interchangeably with Numbers and strings. to do the parsing I do, I have to work 1 char at a time or handle a whole integer string.

it might be in the middle of 2/2/2013 23:59:59.123 or 5 minutes for instance.  so I have a problem.

as soon as I do $ch=stringmid($str,$i,1) and it happens to be a "5" in 5min for instance, it converts the "5" to a Number. from then on, I can't process the string as a string and append chars with &= and have it still come out as a string, it comes out as a number as soon as it hits a digit during lexing.

is there a workaround to force it to be a string? if I want something to be a Number() or Int() I can always use those functions, but this is interfering with my kitchentimer.

Do you have actual sample reproducing code causing issue or is it just out of the blue?

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language conversion bug of mine, never mind I think. I was converting from js, and js uses + for string concat. autoit uses + to turn  a char into a number interestingly enough. but I used the wrong op. so many times it's just me. I thought I had converted the code OK, but... :-/ sorry guys. thanks for the help. normally I just lose hair... funny, it's laying at my keyboard :-)

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