Excel vba - convert string to number

Question

So, I used the left function to take the first 4 characters of a string and I need to run a vlookup with it, but it won't find the match because it's looking through numbers.

I want to do this in a macro, so I'm not sure about the syntax. Can someone help?

Unwisdom

Answer 1

use the val() function

Connote

Answer 2

If, for example, x = 5 and is stored as string, you can also just:

x = x + 0

and the new x would be stored as a numeric value.

Oaks