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On Monday, 23 July 2012 00:21:47 UTC+10, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply  wrote:

> Suppose I have something like 2.63 as a character string.  Is there a
> way to get this into a DOUBLE PRECISION variable with value
> 2.6300000000?

Use an internal READ.