Converting chat messages string to an integer.

[TomYoki]

Hello, I've been working on a function on my bot that requires the user to insert different user's steamID64 (through chat message).

The problem is I need this to be an integer.

I already tried parseInt(), parseFloat() & Math. Functions, but for some reason this changes last 2 numbers of the ID to 20. (I also tried adjusting the base values (parseInt(msg[1], 10))

 

Any help would be appreciated!

Edited June 8, 2017 by TomYoki

[Dr. McKay]

JavaScript does not have integers. It only has double-precision floating-point numbers, which can only safely represent integers up to 2^53 - 1. Consequently, you can't have a SteamID as an integer, only as a string.

[TomYoki]

Huh, so what you're saying is there in no possible way to extract steamID as a number out of a chat message?

[Dr. McKay]

There is no way to represent a SteamID as a number in JavaScript, period. If you want to validate an individual SteamID from input, you can use regex: str.match(/^76561\d{12}$/)

[TomYoki]

Oh, thanks a lot.