TONUMBER ERROR

Hi everyone,

I'm getting this error when doing a currency conversion. Below is the formula I'm using for the conversion.

'$'+TOSTRING(TONUMBER([GROSS SALES])/TONUMBER([Budget Rate]),2,1,".")

In my export, it is returning $1,703.56 when it should be $1,074,245.05

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Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Accepted answers

WebEx is wonderful.

When you try to store a string value into a number, you generally get 0. If however, you start the string with numbers, you'll get the numbers until you hit a character not in the set of {0-9 or .}.
Keep your incoming data as either fixed decimal or double
Convert to string with:
```
ToString([My Number], 2, 1, ".")
```
Where [My Number] is a number and 2 is the # of desired decimal places and 1 says that you've got thousand "characters" and that your decimal is a dot.
Your IN-DB (teradata) is nice, but with ADHD I couldn't take it. So I added an OUTPUT to a "cache.yxdb" file and moved a UNION tool after your DATA STREAM OUT. Then I put those tools (not the union) into a container, "LIVE DATA" and disabled it. Then I added an input tool inside of a "CACHED DATA" container that read the cache.yxdb file. The output from the INPUT tool was connected to that same UNION. You can now flip between your containers as needed.

All worked wonderfully.

Cheers,
Mark

If you have commas in your [GROSS SALES] and [Budget Rate] columns, those will need to be removed for the calculation. Try this:

'$'+TOSTRING(TONUMBER(replace([GROSS SALES],",",""))/TONUMBER(replace([Budget Rate],",","")),2,1,".")

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Still getting the error and having the calculation cut off.