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How to apply Sum on dollar values

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Jack
Jack Rank 4 - Community Specialist
edited Aug 13, 2024 3:26PM in Oracle Analytics Forum

How to apply Sum on dollar values

i have data as

c1     c2

jan    $10

feb    $20

Both c1 and c2 are varchar datatypes, how can apply sum on c2 which is varchar

since c2 is have $ sysmbol, im not able to cast this to integer

Anyone help

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  • Jack
    Jack Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    using Evalauate function, i have removed $ sysmbol. But i have having commas ',' in data ,so that unable to sum valaue. When tried to cast to integer got error.

    Can someone help

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Why EVALUATE? OBI Gives you a whole catalog of predefind functions which can easily do exactly what you're looking for:

    cast(REPLACE('$1000', '$', '') as DOUBLE)

    Or in your case:

    cast(REPLACE("MyPresentationTable"."MyPresentationColumnWhereIWantThe$SignGone", '$', '') as DOUBLE)

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Manu, did you let this drop or what's the status of your problem?

  • Jack
    Jack Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    worked thanks

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Good to hear. So can you please close this thread by marking the appropriate answers as "Correct" or "Helpful"? This will flag the thread as "Closed" and making it visible to other users that it contains a valid answer to the problem which helps when searching for a resolution in this forum.