Howdy and grand rising all,

I have several fields adopted as character but need to be numeric. Data that currently exists in the fields are represented as characters and for example: -1.72% or 33.23%.
All of them have the percent sign in them hence why prior folks made it character. I need to convert to numeric in order to perform sorting from asc to desc as well as calculations. I'm running the following code but it's tell me too few arguments. I am also concerned the impact this would have if i placed within a Scan that is used to draw that data from a source table and insert into a new table with the fields being set as numeric.

* ?VAL(STRTRAN(SourceData.SalesPergain),"%",,"")