"Bob W" <nospam at aol.com> wrote in message
news:e5h97s$muj$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Unless you specifically intend to get identical results
> for e. g. toInt(";:=",16) and toInt("BAD",16) ,
> you need to exclude a certain character range from
> conversion.
Ooh, how insidious. Thanks for catching that.