On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 13:23:30 -0500, "Francis I. Coppage, Jr."
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Why should this produce a 'Numeric Overflow'? I would expect it to return
>390.
>
>?VAL("390E 390TX")
>
>It is translating the 'E' to exponential with the following numeric to its
>exponent.
>
>What would your suggestions be to just evaluate the leading numeric?
Try this:
? val(strtran("390E 390TX", " ", "_"))
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Gianni
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