"11Oppidan" wrote in message
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Hi,

Using VB .Net please could someone help me with the syntax to convert a
string to number. I want this to turn the computer name into an value so
I
can pass it through a function to determine a unique key for the machine.



Use CLng. You can find out more about conversion he
http://www.startvbdotnet.com/language/conversion.aspx

/Fredrik