Cast

Cast

x$y
x@y

Supported in

K6($), K9(@)

cast, also known as dollar, casts a value to a different datatype based on a given value. The required casting value for x varies between dialects.

The cast primitive is fully atomic.

K6

Uses symbols to indicate cast target.

Caption text

Symbol	Type
`i	Integer
`b	Boolean
`f	Float
`c	Character

 `i$"Hello."
72 101 108 108 111 46
 `c$72 101 108 108 111 46
"Hello."
 `f`i$31
31 31

K3

  0$"123"  /parse as int
123
  0.0$"123.45678"  /parse as float
123.45678
  0.0$"123.456789999999"  /parse as float (note that default precision (\p) is set to 7)
123.4568
  `$"zzz"  /convert string to symbol
`zzz