# How to convert Any '5' to Int 5?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562 "2017-10-19T15:57:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/1 "2017-10-19T15:57:22Z")
how to convert Any ‘5’ to Int 5 ?
now ‘5’ is converted to 53
julia\> test
11449238-element Array{Any,1}:
‘5’
‘1’
‘1’
‘1’
‘1’
‘1’
‘2’
‘2’
julia\> convert(Array{Int64},test)
11449238-element Array{Int64,1}:
53
49
49
49
49
49
50
Paul
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### Author:  [@yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuyichao)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/2 "2017-10-19T16:02:56Z")
What you are doing is not convertion but parsing so, `parse.(Int, test)`.
Although actually since you have character instead of string you’ll need `test .- '0'`
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### Author:  [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/3 "2017-10-19T16:22:15Z")
Thianks. Nice in Julia 6 .0 but im using 5.0 …
> parse.(Int64, test)
> ERROR: MethodError: no method matching size(::Type{Int64})
> Closest candidates are:
> size{N}(::Any, ::Integer, ::Integer, ::Integer…) at abstractarray.jl:48
> size(::BitArray{1}) at bitarray.jl:39
> size(::BitArray{1}, ::Any) at bitarray.jl:43
> …
> in broadcast\_shape(::Type{T}, ::Array{Any,1}) at .\broadcast.jl:31
> in broadcast\_t(::Function, ::Type{Any}, ::Type{T}, ::Vararg{Any,N}) at
> .\broadcast.jl:213
> in broadcast(::Function, ::Type{T}, ::Array{Any,1}) at .\broadcast.jl:230
Paul
W dniu 2017-10-19 o 18:08, Yichao Yu pisze:
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/4 "2017-10-19T18:04:36Z")
Use an array comprehension instead of the broadcast?
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### Author:  [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/5 "2017-10-19T18:38:34Z")
> [@yuyichao](#):
>
> parse.(Int, test)
Some ide for Juloa 5.0 ?
Paul
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### Author:  [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/6 "2017-10-19T18:39:39Z")
> [@dpsanders](#):
>
> Use an array comprehension instead of the broadcast
plese show me 🙂
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### Author:  [@ggggggggg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ggggggggg)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-any-5-to-int-5/6562/7 "2017-10-19T18:41:34Z")
`[parse(Int,x) for x in test]`