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String to number / replace "." by nothing

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Hello,

i have "sales" as V_String. To use math formulars i need to transform it to a numeric.

 

First Probem = How to transform the date? when i use select tool and change datatpye to double the 4.310 becomes 4.31 and this is wrong. i guess i need to replace the "." by nothing. but how? i tried the replacefunktion with...

wordreplacement
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... but i cant select replacement in the "find replace tool" since the row is empty.

 

second problem = how to use it on the whole data input? i dont want to select a specific row because i have a lot of sales columns.

 

my table looks like here:

companysales week1sales week2...
A13.54342.583...
B12.4564.310...
C.........

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