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- From: gokieli@fuw.edu.pl (Ryszard Gokieli)
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- Subject: Re: Translate() question
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 17:11:46 GMT
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- In-reply-to: bnear@blvl.igs.net's message of Sun, 17 Mar 1996 14:29:51 -0500
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- >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Near <bnear@blvl.igs.net> writes:
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- Brian> I need to strip commas from numbers, such as 1,234,567.00 I've
- Brian> tried TRANSLATE(), but wind up with 1 234 567.00. I then have
- Brian> to concatenate the results. I can't seem to specify a null (
- Brian> '') as a fill character as the minimum is one space.
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- What about SPACE(TRANSLATE(NumberWithCommas,'',','),0) ?
- It works on IBM/VM, should work everywhere.
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- Richard Gokieli (gokieli@fuw.edu.pl)
- Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw
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