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Old 06-07-2013
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Originally Posted by pamu
1. [,:] --> Yes. We use this for two separate field separators.
Code:
1  2    3  4   5 fields
1,SENT,EBS,1 : 1

2. As you can see $4 is having spaces around. so we have to remove spaces. that's why i've added 0 to it. Adding 0 makes it number.

Hope this helps you Smilie

pamu
It certainly did... thank you very much, Pamu !!
I didn't know adding 0 makes the field a numerical one...
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Old 06-07-2013
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Originally Posted by juzz4fun
It certainly did... thank you very much, Pamu !!
I didn't know adding 0 makes the field a numerical one...
Any numerical operation to that field will make it numerical.

You can also do this by *1, /1 like Smilie
Just careful with the strings. String will become 0

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