I'm using OBSEs's Text Input features (OpenTextInput, etc)-- what I want is for the Player to be able to enter a numerical value here, and then have Oblivion translate that value to the number it represents (or return an error message if it is not a number), and then write it to a Short variable.

Kind of like this:

1. Text Input Opens
2a. Player Inputs text "Hello"
2b. Player Inputs text "1000"
3. Text Input Closes
4. Oblivion Scans the String_Var, and finds it is faulty (5a) or Oblivion scans the String_Var and sees it is a number (5b)
5a. "Error, You must enter a Number!!"
5b. Short Value updated to a reflect the entered number for later use.

Is this possible, at all?

Something like:

let str := GetInputText[34:-1]let num := #str ; or ToNumber str

Couple of things that could be improved there:
-GetInputText return value includes some html at the beginning of the string; an optional argument can be added to make it discard that.
-ToNumber and the # operator return 0 if the string cannot be converted to a number; if the first characters of the string can be converted, they will stop when they hit a non-numeric character and return the numeric portion only. A CanConvertToString or something would check that a string is fully valid as a number.

Hmm... I seem to be having issues

Let EnteredDate := GetInputText[34:-1]Let FinalDate := ToNumber EnteredDateCloseTextInputLet EnteredDate := GetInputText[34:-1]Let FinalDate := #EnteredDateCloseTextInput

I entered the above, separately, and either way EnteredDate returns 2, with FinalDate returning 0... I assume the String cannot be converted (based on what you say above), but cannot see why...

Any idea what is wrong? Also what is the [34:-1] bit for?

Thanks for the help

Oh, you're probably using a messagebox, not a book, for input, in which case the html stuff doesn't apply. The [34:-1] is supposed to strip off leading html. Try it without but be aware that GetInputText needs an update (actively testing it now) so you may not get the expected results (if so try using set enteredDate to GetInputText instead of Let).

Hmm... without the [34:-1], I still seem to get nothing; and with a Set...to... It always returns 1.

Oh well, it's not too important, so I'll just wait for the update Thanks for the help

If possible, could we get a "NumericalInputText" that would allow only numbers, and return them?

I don't really see what the problem is. I am using GetInputText several places in my mods, and one of the places in Enhanced Economy I use it to read in a number.

The two most relevant lines from that script, are:

				set s1 to GetInputText				...				let eeTempF := sv_ToNumeric s1

...where eeTempF is a float. And this works without any problem. I don't perform that much checking on the result (s1), but you can of course do all kind of checks on that string_var...

TNO-- thank-you!! That did it perfectly... It looks, from what I can tell, like an issue with using Let/Let or Set/Set... I'm not sure why, but when using them I got bad results, but a Set/Let has worked perfectly