Nick Cox
>
> Zero fill is unnecessary, even this route.
>
> The last two characters are
>
> substr(string(myvar),-2,2)
>
> The first substring wanted is
>
> substr(string(myvar),1,length(string(myvar))-3)
>
> The whole is thus
>
> substr(string(myvar),-2,2) +
> substr(string(myvar),1,length(string(myvar))-3)
>
> and the numeric equivalent is
>
> real(substr(string(myvar),-2,2) +
> substr(string(myvar),1,length(string(myvar))-3))
>
> Not tested.
Not only not tested, but wrong in that
the order of the substrings should be reversed.
Nick
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