>>Hi everybody,
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>>I have a textbox value that is supposed to be numeric, but because I'm trying to use some special class I created, can be character at times. I'm wondering what would be the simpliest way to create the VAL() function working for numeric as well?
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>>Thanks.
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>Check for the type using IIF() would be the simplest I think.

Yes, I was thinking the same. Thanks.