Just for your future information as long as the field is not null you can use
CDbl.

CDbl("23.32-") returns -23.32

If you want to be careful you can use

UPDATE [MyTable]
SET [MyTable].[MyNumericField] =
IIF(IsNumeric([MyTextField]),CDbl([MyTextField]),Null)

Obviously, if you want zero or some other number result in MyNumericField when
MyTextField cannot be interpreted as a number you can replace null with zero
or -999999 (or whatever value you want).

OR you could use
UPDATE [MyTable]
SET [MyTable].[MyNumericField] = CDbl([MyTextField])
WHERE IsNumeric(MyTextField) = True

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2010
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Dorian wrote:
CLng is dropping the fractional part.
Try using CDbl ?
-- Dorian
"Give someone a fish and they eat for a day; teach someone to fish and they
eat for a lifetime".


"RyNC" wrote:

Hi,

I need some help with the below IF statement for update query. I got it to
move the negative sign to the front of the number, but now it is removing all
numbers after my decimal point. I've checked to make sure my formatting for
[MyNumericField] is double and 2 decimal points.

For example:

[MyTextField] is 23.32-

I run update query and....

[MyNumericField] is -23


Here is what I have for the update query:

UPDATE [MyTable] SET [MyTable].[MyNumericField] =
IIf(Right([MyTextField],1)="-",-CLng(Left([MyTextField],Len([MyTextField])-1)),CLng([MyTextField]))

Thanks,
RyNC