RE: Exponential puzzler
- From: "Robertson Lee - lerobe" <Lee.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:32:47 -0000
Thanks for all the responses folks, it would appear I misinterpreted the
requirements and they merely wanted to take the text version and put it
into a number column so to_number is absolutely fine J
Cheers
Lee
From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2012 13:38
To: Robertson Lee - lerobe
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Exponential puzzler
On 02/27/2012 02:06 PM, Robertson Lee - lerobe wrote:
Guys,
Anyone had to convert an exponential number to a proper decimal number ?
Ive got a varchar2 field which holds an exponential number as a string
and need to get it out as a real number....
e.g
select popularity from lee1;
returns
8.912655903259292E-5
I would have thought a simple
select to_number(popularity) from lee1;
would work but it returns exactly the same.
I know I can format it in SQL*Plus but this is actually part of an
application and I need to update a table with the numeric value of the
exponential string.
TIA
Lee
Lee,
Don't mistake the representation and the actual value. Once you have
applied "to_number()", it has become a number, and therefore you have
what you need for your update. If you want to *show* it differently,
then it's a pure formatting (and conversion to varchar2) question.
It's exactly the same story as with dates - even if a date doesn't
display the way you want, it doesn't mean that inside Oracle it's not
what it should be.
The exponential notation is just the best way to maximize the
information displayed while minimizing the number of digits ...
HTH,
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