[Gambas-user] someshort="xy" returns "Wanted short, got string instead"

[kevinfishburne]

I can say, somebyte=ASC("x"), but is it possible to quickly assign a two-byte
string to a typical two-byte short?

I'm sure this can be done with some lengthy function but (as most
programmers should) I have a need for efficiency. I'm not concerned with
character set mishaps for people with different language settings, as the
app will be virtualized in a strict environment.

Also in general I am extremely interested in how to quickly assign values
from one datatype to a different one. Does GAMBAS have a convention for this
outside of functions like ASC?

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