Text to number without string parser - example

here is an example how you convert text to numbers without using the string parser object -
suuuuuuuuuperr easy :D
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:pacman: :pacdot: :pacdot: :pacdot:

this is the same as just using: Str$( >Enter number here< )
it would be a lot more interesting if you could convert actual text "abc" to a number and then back to string ;)