# Does Flash know a function like TypeCast?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-flash-know-a-function-like-typecast/89630>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 10, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-flash-know-a-function-like-typecast/89630 "2005-05-10T07:33:21Z")\
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I need to add values in a string (they’re strings because I get a date as timestamp from a database and then pluck it apart in Flash with substring). Flash doesn’t do math with strings. (doh!) So is there a way to cast the string into an integer value?