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Summing Values

AshleyDaniel
5 - Atom

Hi everyone, 

I am trying to sum my values by issuers so I converted the value's data type to Int16. However, when I do that the numbers change and I am unsure why. Am I using the wrong data type? 

 

Thanks for the help!

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@AshleyDaniel 
you data has thousand comma (,), need to remove that first.

MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

I'm looking at this on my phone. It looks like there are commas in your numbers.  That means that these are strings.  

use a multi-field formula where you can convert them to numbers as:

 

tonumber(replacechar([_current field_],",",''))

 

 please excuse any syntax issues with my iPhone expression. 

cheers,

 

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@AshleyDaniel 

Here is the sample flow.

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AshleyDaniel
5 - Atom

Yes this was the issue. Thank you all for the help! (:

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@AshleyDaniel 
thank you for the accept mark also.

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