RE: Extract number from character field

[Carl Friedberg <friedberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And, in that case, the perl script flat out gives you two separate array
members $num[0] contains 12; $num[1] contains 345. A generalized input
semantics parser, something like you get with most language runtimes, is
non-trivial, I would suspect... just my useless 2cents

Carl Friedberg carl@comets.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 4:03 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Extract number from character field


> > But what if the source string was "12,435"?

I'm sorry, I didn't explain myself well enough (or didn't read your
original post closely enough to see the positions were hardcoded).  What
I meant was, what if sometimes the commas are there and sometimes not?
As in "12345" one time and "12,345" the next.

-Jeff
jlcrosby@fwi.com
Voice: 219-422-7531  Fax: 219-426-0212

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