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Can I change a string to a float in an Advanced PDF?

edited Jun 2, 2025 2:41PM in Ask A Guru 11 comments

On my pdf, I'm pulling in data from a custom record and adding the values of each column together.

Here are the fields from the custom record, they're listed as decimal/float numbers.

In one of my pdfs, I've done this before where the numbers which are coming from the item record are treated as numbers.

In my latest pdf using the custom record however, all of these columns are coming into the pdf through a script as longtext, is there some way to convert them into decimal/float numbers?

Or perhaps I get the script to push a second set of information where all the numbers are floats instead of longtext.

Sam Dainton

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Lapwing UK - Site Supplies & Construction Tools

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