{"json_modified": "2016-03-28T08:35:56.972135", "uuid": "eefc891d-228a-46df-af56-4e38ca6ab1ca", "title": "Type Conversion", "url": "/en-US/docs/Glossary/Type_Conversion", "tags": ["Type conversion", "CodingScripting", "Type casting", "Glossary"], "translations": [{"uuid": "531e3fb0-80d5-4a71-b62a-2557651d3de0", "title": "Conversion de type", "url": "/fr/docs/Glossaire/Conversion_de_type", "tags": ["CodingScripting", "Transtypage", "Conversion de type", "Glossaire"], "summary": "La conversion de type (ou transtypage) est le transfert d'une donn\u00e9e d'un type de donn\u00e9e vers un autre. Une <em>conversion implicite </em>se produit quand le compilateur affecte les types de donn\u00e9e automatiquement, mais le code source peut aussi demander \u00e0 ce qu'une conversion ait lieu de mani\u00e8re <em>explicite</em>.\u00a0 Exemples simples : \u00e9tant donn\u00e9e l'instruction <code>5+2.0</code>, l'entier <code>5</code> est converti implicitement en nombre \u00e0 virgule flotttante, mais avec l'instruction <code>Number(\"0x11\")</code>, la cha\u00eene \"0x11\" est explicitement convertie en valeur num\u00e9rique 17.", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "fr", "last_edit": "2015-12-09T14:46:21", "review_tags": []}], "modified": "2015-08-03T13:18:58", "label": "Type Conversion", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 113997, "last_edit": "2015-08-03T13:18:57", "summary": "Type conversion (or typecasting) means transfer of data from one data type to another. <em>Implicit conversion </em>happens when the compiler automatically assigns data types, but the source code can also <em>explicitly </em>require a conversion to take place.\u00a0 Simple examples: given the instruction <code>5+2.0</code>, the integer <code>5</code> is implicitly typecasted into floating point, but given the instruction <code>Number(\"0x11\")</code>, the string \"0x11\" is explicitly typecasted as the number 17.", "sections": [{"id": "Learn_more", "title": null}, {"id": "General_knowledge", "title": "General knowledge"}], "slug": "Glossary/Type_Conversion", "review_tags": []}