# String to uint

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-to-uint/287336>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 29, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-to-uint/287336 "2009-04-29T16:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![pardoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@pardoner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pardoner)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-to-uint/287336/1 "2009-04-29T16:45:22Z")

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I’ve imported a color value via XML. Now I would like to convert that String to a uint

```php

var color1:String = "0x00FF00";
var color2:uint = uint(color1);

trace(color2); // outputs 65280

```

How do i convert this string into a uint