[oopic] Converting a string value to a numeric value?

I'm trying to receive data to my OOPic R through a serial port
connected to a laptop. I want to use this data to control objects
from the OOPic but, in order to do that, I need to convert the string
data that is coming from the serial port to numeric data.

In C, there is a specific function for this called atoi, but I can't
find anything like it in the OOPic manual.

Just in case anybody wants to see it, here is my code ...

Dim A As New oDIO1
Dim B as New oSerial

Sub Main()
A.IOLine = 8
A.Direction = cvOutput
B.Baud = cv9600
B.Operate = cvTrue
A = 0
Do
If B.Received = cvTrue then
B.Value = B.value
End If
A = B
Loop
End Sub

Obviously, this doesn't work because B is not a zero or one in a
numerical sense, and what I am picking up is ASCI code ... in other
words a whole bunch of zeros and ones.

Any thoughts?

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