[Solved] convert int to str opensesame inline script

leonie_k

Hello :)

I am quite new to opensesame and programming and now i am stuck in a problem with converting an integer to a string in an inline script in Opensesame.

This is my code so far:

var.stritem = str(var.item)

var.itemcode = var.stritem + var.gsk_it

Now i tried two different versions of converting this int, but none has worked. Since I want to generate a new variable that includes the Itemcode, i need to concatenate those two variables.

I hope you can help me, maybe this is a very obvious mistake. 😅

leonie

Fab

Hi @leonie_k,

Welcome to the forum!

I'm no Python expert, but I think that within OS, a variable that contains only numerical characters, even if extracted the str function, is interpreted as an integer. (developers, please correct me if I'm wrong).

So, in your code, if var.item is numerical (I assume it is), var.stritem will be interpreted as numerical. Let's say that var.item contains the value 22, then str(var.item) would be a string ("22"), but because it contains no alphanumerical characters, OS interprets var.stritem is as a numerical value anyway, so that var.stritem is actually a numerical variable.

However, if you combine str(var.item) (22) and an actual string (e.g., "test"), then the result is alphanumerical and so the result would be a string ("22test").

Run this Python code in OS and it should work:

# sets up example valuesvalues
var.item=22
var.gsk_it="test"

# combine integer and string into a string
var.itemcode = str(var.item) + var.gsk_it

# Print to console
print ("Checking the result: "+var.itemcode)

Hope this helps!

Fabrice.

leonie_k

Thank you so much! It works!

😀

Fab

Hi @leonie_k,

Glad it's working! 👍️

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