# ASCII to Decimal conversion

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ascii-to-decimal-conversion/11133>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ascii-to-decimal-conversion/11133 "2016-01-28T07:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![BG3009](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@BG3009](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/BG3009)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ascii-to-decimal-conversion/11133/1 "2016-01-28T07:03:42Z")

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Hi,  
I am getting ASCII strings as an interger tag that I am trying to convert into an integer. I am trying to create an expression tag to do this but this doesn’t seem to work. Does anyone have any ideas?  
Cheers!

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ascii-to-decimal-conversion/11133/2 "2016-01-28T13:14:27Z")

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toInt() usually works. What kind of string are you getting?