Rachel,
We have two Third Party apps here for Finance and Student Information that
do ridiculous stuff like this so often, I just immediately jumped into "fix
it" mode without even questioning. "Don't even ask why" is our motto. ;
-)
Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator
Austin Independent School District
Austin, Texas
512.414.9715 (wk)
512.935.5929 (pager)
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Rachel
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03:49 PM
Please respond
to ORACLE-L
Am I the only one wondering why an obviously numeric field
(unit_cost???) is being stored as varchar?
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>
> Laura,
>
> Are those really zeros in $34,000.05 or are they letter Os? If so
> use
> Replace. (Beware of letter l being used instead of numeral 1 as
> well.)
>
> Any leading or trailing spaces? If so use Trim(unit_cost).
>
> Just a couple of quick suggestions.
>
> Jack C. Applewhite
>
>
>Burton, Laura
>
> 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.
>
> Is there any other way to do this? I am trying to add a varchar2
> field
> that contains $ and commas. I thought the to_number function would
> convert
> the data to a number field.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laura
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