You can -destring- to ignore the period.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John Milam
> Sent: 08 January 2004 14:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: Education CIP Codes with Label Define
>
>
> Nick,
>
> You are right in the example I included. I would like then
> to change it
> from string to numeric. But I don't know how to treat the
> padding of
> leading/trailing zeros and the period which will then treat
> the number
> as having 4 decimals.
>
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