Parse Function (Access custom web app)

Office 2013 and later

Parses a text value and returns its value in a given type using the culture of the application.

Last modified: March 09, 2015

Applies to: Access 2013 | Access 2016

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Parse(TextExpression, DataType )

The Parse function contains the following arguments.

Argument name

Description

TextExpression

A text expression representing the formatted value to parse into the specified data type.

DataType

Literal value representing the data type requested for the result.

Use Parse only for converting from string to date/time and number types. For general type conversions, use the Convert function. Keep in mind that there is a certain performance overhead in parsing the string value.

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