astring - astore

[strato]

is there any way to prevent type changing while using astring() - astore()?

declare a[2]
a[1] = "a"
a[2] = 2.0
?type("a[2]") 	// N
x = astring(a,",")
=astore(aa,x,",")
?type("aa[2]") 	// C

[barrymavin]

No it treats all items in the comma separated list as character strings.

for I=1 to alen(a)
  if isdigit(a[i])
    a[i] = val(a[i])
  endif
endfor

You may want to look at json_encode() / json_decode() and metadata_encode() / metadata_decode() also.