=====Text To Number====
Takes a text representation of a number in various formats and returns an AppleScript integer of the result. Can convert strings containing hex or binary or octal to a number as well as regular numerical strings.
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====Usage:====
**text to number** (text: representing a number. Use a number specifier below for special number systems)\\
returns an AppleScript Integer.\\
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NOTE: real numbers containing decimals will be truncated. Use the standard “as number” conversion in AppleScript to convert those.

===Number Specifiers===
By using these prefixes to the number string this command can work with decimal numbers, binary numbers, hexadecimal numbers even octal numbers.\\
  * “&h” to denote the following number is hex, like “&hAABBCC22"
  * “&b” to denote the following number is a binary string, like “&b11010011"
  * “&o” to denote the following number is an octal string, like “&o4522"
  * for decimal numbers no prefix is necessary, like “23"

====Examples:====

<code>
  set myValue to (text to number “23”)
  
  set myHexValue to (text to number “&hA4B211”)
  
  set myBinaryValue to (text to number “&b1011010111”)
  
  set myOctalValue to (text to number “&o321274”)
</code>