You have to do it in two steps.

replace all lnValue with iif('-'$laValue,-1*val(laValue),val(laValue)) ∨ something like that

>I am importing a large csv file and all of the negative signs are on the right instead of the left. Is there some way to have FoxPro 6.0 recognize these as negative?
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>I would think that this is fairly common but without importing as text and writing a routine to get the value, I do not see any easy way out.
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>Scott Sherman