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Re: Character to number conversion

From: John Vernes <vernes.j_at_consunet.nl>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:41:28 +0100
Message-ID: <7c1jla$if3$1@news.worldonline.nl> 





I have a nice function to check is a character field REALLY is a number



nvl(rtrim(ltrim(value, '0123456789'), '0123456789'), '.') = '.'



This results in '.' for a number. This works great for character fields.
Use a decode for example to split the numbers from the rest



Nice He



-John


Received on Mon Mar 08 1999 - 16:41:28 CST












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