Generally though, you want to cast(moneyfield as float) not int. int will strip off the cents...
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: convert from money to number On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 04:03 PM, Bryan Love wrote: > wrap each number in a val() function. It forces numeric conversion > If you want to do the conversion on the SQL side, you can also do this: select safevalue = cast(moneyfield as int) from tablename Then refer to queryname.safevalue. I haven't tested this, but it should work. I wouldn't think it would be any more efficient than Bryan's suggestion unless you were returning a really huge number of rows from the DB. > hi everyone. im have a sql backend with a field that has the type of > "money". once i get this field into my cf page, i want to them perform > math functions on it (division, addition, etc.) so that i can > calculate different > values. i keep getting the error "Cannot convert to number." what is the > best way to convert these money values to numbers, so that i can then > perform math functions on them. thanks so much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
