ParseText: Parse text into the appropriate type
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ParseText

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Parse text into the appropriate type

Description

Convert text into the specified type. This can be used with form.textBox. The return value is a single value. Use TextAsVector first if multiple entries separated by a comma (or other deliminator) is expected.

Usage

ParseText(x, same.as = NULL, type = "Automatic")

Arguments

`x`	The input character string to be converted.
`same.as`	A variable of the same class as the desired output. If this is supplied then `class(same.as)` will be used instead of `type`.
`type`	The desired type of the output. If set to "Automatic" (and `same.as` is not supplied) then `numeric`, `POSIXct`, `Date`, and `character` will be tried sequentially. However, if a specific type is specified, then `NA` will be returned if it cannot be appropriately parsed. Note that `factors` will be treated as characters