>Is there a way to convert a character field to a numeric field? (I need it to be numeric so there is a decimal)
>
>Thanks,
>Ryan
Since everyone alrady said VAL(), I'll say Evaluate() just to be different.
lcnum = "19.675432"
? vartype(lcnum) && returns C
lnnum = evaluate(lcnum)
? vartype(lnnum) && returns N
lnnum now equals 19.675432
Larry Miller
MCSD
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