Re: How to get the dollar value from this text string?

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  The xlate works like this but there are other numbers in the
string.

nte = %xlate('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ':'                          ':nte);

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:28 PM Steve M via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Art,
>
> How consistent is the number format?  You could search from the right for a
> decimal (period) and then go two to the right and one to the left of that
> location.  A more direct "hit" that the space search IMHO.
>
> Steve Meisinger
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Tostaine, Jr.
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> Subject: How to get the dollar value from this text string?
>
> Here are some samples. need to extract 1.23 here.  I was thinking of
> reading
> backwards looking for a space.  Any better ideas?  Thank you.
>
> NTE*OTH*#F7- PST/SALES TAX GAZE9H01/MNT/   /  6/- 1.23~
>
> NTE*OTH*#F7- PST/SALES TAX GSYE9R03/WHT/   / 4T/- 1.22~
>
> NTE*OTH*#OH- HANDLING CHARGES GAZE9H01/MNT/   /  6/- 3.36~
>
> NTE*OTH*#OH- HANDLING CHARGES GSYE9R03/WHT/   / 4T/- 2.29~
>
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