I think you don't need DollarFormat when updating only when displaying
ie

<cfquery name="update" datasource="purchases">
UPDATE purchases SET Costeach = #Costeach#
...


Seamus



At 10:09 pm 24/05/2002 , you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I must be missing some kind of syntax. Anyone can help please?
>
>I'm getting the error below when I do this update:
>
><cfquery name="update" datasource="purchases">
>UPDATE purchases SET Costeach = #Dollarformat(Costeach)#
>
>on a field that is dollar formatted as:
><input type="text" name="costeach" value="#Dollarformat(getpo.costeach)#"
>
>The error is:
>"An error occurred while evaluating the expression: #Dollarformat(Costeach)#
>Parameter 1 of function DollarFormat which is now "$300.00" must be a number
>The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier 
>of (#Dollarformat(Costeach)#),..."
>
>Thanks,
>
>Robert Orlini
>
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