Was tracking down a bug in my app and couldnt figure out what was wrong initially.

All the code seemed right but setting a value to code like

value = string.ToInteger

seemed to be the culprit. Sure enough the string contained a value like 3.0e+2 (an integer expressed in exponential form) But the docs say

String.ToInteger

Method

Returns the integer equivalent of the source string. This function is the same as the Val function but is international-savvy.

But experience was telling me this wasnt true

So a quick test in 2021r2.1 with

Dim s As String = "3.0e+2"

Dim i1 As Int32 = Val(s)
Dim i2 As Int32 = s.Val
Dim i3 As Int32 = s.ToInteger

Break

shows that indeed i1 = 300, i2 = 300, and i3 is 3 not 300 like I would have expected. I changed my use of ToInteger to Val and things work as expected.

Be careful out there

EDIT : reported bug http://feedback.xojo.com/case/65567