vbscript funtion turn string to int

CInt() ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vtoriFunctions.asp) :D

clng() if the number could ever be bigger than 32,000 :o hehehehehe Surley you mean 32,767. ;)

something like that, can never remember it exactly of the top of my header, I just use clng all the time, as i never have to worry about a big number crashing my app.
:eek: I must be sat in front of my PC far too much to know what 2^15-1 is.

In general it is safer to use CLng because you are gauranteed to get an integer at least 4 bytes (32 bit) in size. Whereas the plain integer type, while more efficient and faster to use is platform and language dependant. In .NET an integer is 4 bytes for example, while in VB6 its only 2.