reading cartesian coordinates in exponential form....

Hallo all!

Here i am again, with a different problem this time. Any input would be highly appreciated... Please bear with me, first time with visual basic...

Ok my problem is thus, I have to read a STEP file (which is a data exchange format in CAD) and make sense of it all.

The problem I am facing is like thus... the file has the following format
#3=CARTESIAN_POINT('',(0.E0,0.E0,0.E0));
#4=LINE('',#3,#2);
#6=DIRECTION('',(0.E0,0.E0,-1.E0));

Now somehow I have to make the program understand that 0.E0 and etc stands for 0 x 10 power 0, or 0 or -1.E0 standing for
-1x10^0 or 1.E2 standing for 100 ie 1x10^2. Is there a way to do this? I am stymied again, my knowledge of VB is really nto that deep at all... I would appreciate any feedback on how it can be done...

Thanks all
Pete

ah figured it out! maybe its cool to replace them all with
Replace(strArray(i),".E","*10^",1,-1,vbTextCompare)
Works to replace 1.E0 with 1*10^0 which is the intent

lol now if anyone can help me extract that 1*10^0 and treat it as a number please? Thank you!

it looks as though you're going to have to build a function or class that parses your string and calculates it