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[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kroboth, Joe done said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Trying to so some importing of an alien file and I'm in need of an edit
>> that would covert fixed length numbers to the standard .2 format.
>>
>> 00000002451873+ to 24518.73
>>
>> 00000000107859- to -1078.59
>>
>> Any help would great.
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> I'd actually write processing to convert the field, myself.  Unless I see
> someone actually post an edit that does it, to me it's not seeming like a
> task an edit can accomplish by virtue of the data representation in the
> original.

My initial thought was to write a simple "move the sign to the left of the 
numbers" edit and then "divide by 100 in processing".  But where's the 
challenge in that?

-- 
Kenneth Brody