>Howdy all,
>
>Trying to take a character field and convert and then calculate against it. It's initially imported as a text delimited field:
>
>the data looks like: 23.34 or 35.87 etc...
>The data field is a character field.
>
>But when I attempt to perform a calculation, via val(stock_high) - val(stock-low), i receive the function argument invalid count (etc) error.

Alltrim() the entries before converting to numeric.

? vartype(" 23.42" && C

Hank