h & v lookup

Hello,

hlookup vlookup return results enclosed in parentheses. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:

data := 0 7 2
1 1 9
2 5 8

answer=vlookup(1,data,hlookup(0,data,2))

then I get an error message saying that an integer was expected instead of the hlookup stuff. I think it is because the hlookup(7,data,2) term comes back with the result in parentheses. If I just use an ordinary pre-defined constant instead of hlookup term then it works fine. But the trouble is I need to lookup the term in a table to know what it is.

What I have is a table of values and I'm trying to get a value out of it. For example, the rows might all be a model number and the columns might all be different sizes within each model. The values might be weights. I'd be looking up the weight of a model 52, size 36.

Any clues as to how to get this to work?

Thanks,

Tod