In response to Christine Penner <christine(at)ingenioussoftware(dot)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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Bill Moran
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