Re: Cast char to number

In response to Christine Penner <christine@ingenioussoftware.com>:

> I have a character field I want to change to a number. The values in
> that field are all numbers that may or may not be padded with spaces
> or 0's. What is the best way to do that?

Put the values in numeric fields to begin with and cast to chars as
needed.  Basically reverse what you're doing.

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