Visionary User's Guide

Visionary User's Guide
Appendix B: Data Types, Casts, and Value Formats

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Casts

Visionary provides the following cast functions, which are automatically applied as necessary when parsing an expression:

NumToStr()
PntToStr()
PntsToStr()
BoolToNum()
NumToBool()

The following table shows the matrix of data type conversions automatically applied in property functions.


		To
		Boolean	Numeric	String	Point	PointList	Image
From	Boolean		X	X
	Numeric	X		X
	String
	Point			X		X
	PointList			X
	Image

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