>Is there a way to convert the string that has a slash to a numeric (without parsing the string)? For example, make "1/4" to .25, "1/2" to ".5" and so one?
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>TIA

depends on your definition of "parsing" ;-))

luR = iif(vartype(m.lcS)=="C" and occurs("/",m.lcS), eval(m.lcS), m.lcS)