On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 at 13:44, John McKown <john.archie.mckown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have you considered the standard C library functions: "atoi()", "atof()", "atol()", and "atoll()" ? Hi John My issue wasn't so much how to get a number out of the string, rather how to get that value back into a NUMERIC object to return back to the server. Thanks for taking the time to reply though, it's appreciated. Geoff