Re: Removing thousands separator from CSV quoted string -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Removing thousands separator from CSV quoted string
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:06:00 -0400
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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/06/2016
02:50:18 PM:

I have a CSV file coming from a trading partner that uses formatted
dollar amounts - "$2,123.45". I need to remove the thousands
separator comma before I import the file into a real PF.

A true CSV will have double-quotes around a field that has commas
in it. So, I would think you would want to read/import this field as a
character field and then manipulate it into numeric format after the fact.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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