>Hi All:
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>I have a drop down combobox which is populated by a SELECT statement. This is a Numeric field in the original table. I also have a textbox that displays thechoice made from teh combobox.
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>In the InterActiveChange Event of the Combobox, I have the following code:
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mSelectedNumber = this.value

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>However, what is now stored in mSelectedNumber appears to be a character string. How do I convert the contents of variable mSelectedNumber to Numeric type?
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>Thanks in advance.
Check out VAL() function
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mSelectedNumber = val(this.value)