Am I the only one wondering why an obviously numeric field
(unit_cost???) is being stored as varchar?
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> Are those really zeros in $34,000.05 or are they letter Os? If so
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> Any leading or trailing spaces? If so use Trim(unit_cost).
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> Just a couple of quick suggestions.
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> Jack C. Applewhite
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> I have a table which contains a Unit_Cost varchar2(16) which contains
> $34,000.05. I can enter select
> to_number('$34,990.08','$999,999,999.99')
> from dual; and the results is 34990.08. However when I enter select
> to_number(unit_cost,'$999,999,999.99') from elas.qdr I get ora-01722:
> invalid number.
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> Is there any other way to do this? I am trying to add a varchar2
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> that contains $ and commas. I thought the to_number function would
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> the data to a number field.
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