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Subject: Query 400: can an alpha field be converted to numeric?
From: "Stone, Joel" <StoneJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:44:46 -0400
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Users want to convert an alpha field (containing all numeric characters) to
a numeric field so they can do arithmetic operations.

Is there any way to do this in Query/400?

Any creative ideas how to do this?

Maybe using some of the date functions?

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Query 400: can an alpha field be converted to numeric? , Al Barsa
Re: Query 400: can an alpha field be converted to numeric? , mkrouse

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