Thanks a lot. It worked!!!
Sal
>From: Sean German <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Comma/Number Problem
>Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:08:34 -0400
>
>K,
>
>Fair enough. The expression removes all characters that aren't a digit or
>decimal point(0-9 or .).
>
>rereplace(vartocleanup, "[^0-9\.]+", "", "ALL")
>
>Whether you prefer that or Don's newstring=replace(oldstring,",","","ALL")
>depends on the source of the numbers. If you have some legacy data or
>other
>controlled source where you know the only issue will be commas, Don's
>replace will do ya just fine. If there's a chance you might face other
>non-numeric characters (currency symbols, etc.), the rereplace would be
>more
>appropriate. Right tool for the job and all that.
>
>HTH,
>
>
>Sean G.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chapman, Katrina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:09 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Comma/Number Problem
>
>
>No offense to you Shawn but with new people, which he obvioulsy is as he
>doesn't know about replace, you should probably explain what this does
>instead of just supplying it.
>
>--K
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