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Numeric Value coming back as -1

NRD
8 - Asteroid

Good Afternoon,

 

I have a potential data type issue. When I bring this "Amount" field through my Alteryx process as a string I have the complete value for each of my records. The record indicated below in red changes to -1 when I update the data type to be a "double" and multiply the whole data set by -1m as shown in my second screenshot. Any clue why this is? All I want to do is multiply all records by -1. Thanks!

 

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markcurry
12 - Quasar

I think this is because those values have a comma in them, so if you use the Replace formula beforehand to replace the comma with nothing, it should hopefully fix the issue for you.

RobertOdera
13 - Pulsar

Hi, @NRD 

 

Try this to change to Double.

 

ToNumber(TRIM(Replace(Amount, ',', '')))*-1

 

I hope this helps!

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