How do a change a instance variable from string to number (when it is locked)?

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- silbedbg
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Hi everybody

I have an object with an instance variable, which I can not use to read out an array.at(instancevariable), since it is a locked as string (instead of number). It is no big deal, but since I run into this problem again and again. I wanted to ask if there is an elegant solution to either

a) change the used (and locked) instance variable from string to number or

b) use an expression to change it to a number (unfortunately number(), and parse...() are not available in the expression dialog).
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- blackhornet
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int(string)
- silbedbg
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Thank you.
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- Kyatric
- - Joined 18 Aug, 2010
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If you have actions in your project that make use/assign a value to the variable, its type will be locked.

A way to be able to modify the type is to remove this/those actions.

Then you can modify the type in the Variable "definition" dialog (whether it is an instance, global or local variable).

Then you can put back your action and make use of the new type.