Re: Query 400: can an alpha field be converted to numeric?

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been a long time, but look for the "digits" function in Query.

Al

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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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