CAS 6

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makechar

- Miscellaneous

Summary

Convert a numeric field to a text field. Supplying a left argument will first make the field numeric. This might cause some values to be zero.

Examples

makechar LOANID
'I10' makechar LOANID

Syntax

('FmtStr') makechar NumField

Left Arguments

Name	Data Type	Input Type	Description	Optional	Default
FmtStr	Text	Constant	Format String	Yes

Right Arguments

Name	Data Type	Input Type	Description	Optional	Default
NumField	Numeric	Field, Constant	Data	No

Result

Type: Text

Formatted data

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