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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi gang,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To save me re-inventing the wheel (and I won't take the credit - I promise!), I need a set of defines that will strip off comma characters "," from a field with numerics.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">i.e. def a char*10 = "1,234"</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">def b = ncon(a)</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">rep b</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">this gives ZERO</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">obviously, what I need is to report... 1234 and not 0.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I can do it with ten defines and later concatenating them into a single define, then later converting that to a numeric, but there could be a "one line" solution? ;)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
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<P><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Fernando Olmos</FONT></I>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MIS</FONT></B>
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