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   Femme Verbeek to cmakal   
   Re: Comparing strings and numbers   
   29 Aug 07 00:13:44   
   
   From: fv@nospam.tcenl.com   
      
   cmakal schreef:   
   > Hello all,   
   >   
   > I have data that looks like this   
   >   
   > 10   
   > 23   
   > 5A   
   > 27B   
   > O98   
   > P10   
   > 30   
   > 400   
   >   
   > and I wanted to search it to find all values between 1 and 40.  So the   
   > result set will look like this:   
   >   
   > 10   
   > 23   
   > 30   
   >   
   > Is there any way for me to do that?   
   >   
   > I tried between but it only compares the 1st number.   
   >   
   > Any help would be appreciated.   
   >   
   There is a procedure VAL to interpret stringtype  variabeles into its   
   numeric represetation.   
   Look in the help file how to use VAL.   
   If the errorcode is zero and the numeric representation is between 1 and   
   40 --->success   
      
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