Change variable type

[chiprivers]

Is it possible to change the type that a variable is being stored as?

 

I have a var which is behaving like a string but contains a number.  I am assuming that it is behaving like a string due to the way that its value is extracted and applied to the var.

 

Below is an example to demonstrate what I mean by behaving like a string:

var x = 10000;
var y = 999;

var z = x + y;

 

In my script, the above value for z is displaying as 10000999 when I want it to be adding the values so should be 10999.

 

Is there a way that once a var has a value applied, if it is stored as a string, I can change it to be numerical?

[chiprivers]

Honestly, I did try google first and couldn't find the answer to this one.

 

But I googled, and googled a bit more and found the solution!

 

parseInt()