# Not able to add the number variables

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/not-able-to-add-the-number-variables/199592>\
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**Created:** [September 4, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/not-able-to-add-the-number-variables/199592 "2006-09-04T09:15:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasvarghese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jasvarghese](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jasvarghese)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/not-able-to-add-the-number-variables/199592/1 "2006-09-04T09:15:39Z")

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the problem is …  
i am getting a number value from XML and storing into a Number variable  
and when i tried to add this value with another one, its doing concatination…  
is there any data type conversion problem with that?  
I resolved the string values broblem by using toString();  
is there any solution to make it add…