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bwhitlocksaxco
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8 years ago
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Formula for Number to Text

Trying to create a new column that is a concatenation of a number(a.value) and text(UOM). Im pulling from a sql db on this. A problem Im having is my number is stored as a number. I tried to use conv...
  • Phil_Seamark's avatar
    8 years ago

    Hi bwhitlocksaxco

     

    Try wrapping an INT around the a.value

     

    New Column = INT( table[number col] ) & " - " & table[UOM]
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    Phil_Seamark
    8 years ago

    Hi bwhitlocksaxco

     

    It does create an integer, but that is just to strip the decimals.  The & operator then implicitly converts the integer to text by concatenating it to a text value.