Hi conitec,
I see that you are improving the string functions in the latest beta by str_to_int and str_to_float and I appreciate this development! Now it would be even greater if you could also improve the file_var_read function and may introduce new functions like file_int_read and file_float_read for passing longs or floats through external files (if you haven't planned this so far).
Of course corresponding writing functions would be nice as well