From: morgado AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt (Jorge Bruno S. S. Morgado) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: help - type conversion Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:53:55 GMT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <35ed2f07.8501652@news.telepac.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.65.175.163 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk How do I convert some type of data that I have created to a standard data type of c++ ? For example, I have created a class complex, that is something like this: class complex { protected: double real; double imag; public: ... ... } Now, in the main I have: main() { complex x; complex y; x = (10, 4); y = (43, 45); /* And now, I want x to be a double, I do not want x to be something like 2.2 + 0i, I want it ti be just a double 2.2, like this: */ x = 2.2; } Is it possible to do this, how can I do it ? P.S. - If you post an message to the group, please send me also an e-mail. Tanks __________________________________________________________ Jorge Bruno S. S. Morgado, Student of astronomy at Faculdade de Ciênçias do Porto, Portugal, email: morgado AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt