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Your guess is correct !! Thank you very much. It worked even without the
rtrim, but I am leaving it in just in case.
Thanks again,
Laura
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
My guess is that you have leading or trailing spaces. try
select to_number(LTRIM(RTRIM(unit_cost)),'$999,999,999.99') from elas.qdr
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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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