>I am not sure you (or anybody else) notice the changes I made in ISNUMEIRC() function:
>From:
>ISNUMERIC(Fld1+'e1') = 1
>to
>ISNUMERIC(Fld1+'0e1') = 1
>
>That is a trick I learned from George Mastros. Unfortunately he only post in tek-tips forum.
>The goal here is that IF you have values as in the example above ISNUMERIC(Fld1+'0e1') returns:
>
>'1' -> '1e1' -> 1
>'1e1' -> '1e1e1' -> 0
>'1d12'-> '1d12e1'-> 0
>'' -> 'e1' -> 1
>
>and you update only these records where you have a proper numeric values :-)
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