How to get a value from the array in laravel?

I want to get the value from the array without doubleQuotes("")in laravel ,please help me to acheive this thing..

$value=$request->data;
//$value is "490"
what i need is $value=420; without " ".

>Solution :

You would need to cast the string "409" to an integer 409:

$int = (int) $value;