>Hi, i need some help with this.
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>i don't know how to do this.
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>number i got ej."1,260.05"
>i want to convert the "string" to a number
>whenever i do val("1,260.05") but the result is 1.00 not 1,260.05
Eliminate the comma first. strtran() will do the "search and replace" operation (see also chrtran()).
? val(strtran("1,260.05", ",", ""))
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