Date:         Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:46:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Roger Lustig <rlustig@CBDCREDIT.COM>
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From:         Roger Lustig <rlustig@CBDCREDIT.COM>
Organization: Creative Business Decisions, Inc.
Subject:      Re: I need your help... Placing decimal in New Value
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sample1 = sample1 / 10**decimal;

AT wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have this following dataset decimal (char field) and sample1 (char
> field).
>
> decimal  Sample1
> 3        0049
> 2        0051
> 3        0125
>
> decimal is the number of place needs to move for Sample1 which read
> from right to left.
>
> so for decimal=3 than sample1 = 0.049
>
> I would like my output to look like this:
>
> Sample1
> 0.049
> 00.51
> 0.125
>
> How can I do this?  Please help.
>
> AT
>