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Jacob Skaria


"Meeru" wrote:

The number extraced from our financial software shows a minus sign after the
number. for e.g
123,768-
i cannot do any calculation on this numbers as it does not recognise it as a
number, any qick way to delete the - (minus) sign after the number.
thanks in advance:)
meeru