Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T3 TJ083LL/A User Manual

Chapter 12

  

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number

Returns only the numbers in text, as data type number, for use with 

 involving 

numbers or numeric functions. The GetAsNumber function drops all non-numeric 

characters from text.

GetAsNumber(“FY98”) returns 

.

GetAsNumber(“$1,254.50”) returns 

.

GetAsNumber(“2 + 2”) returns 

.

GetAsNumber(SerialNumber) returns 

, when the value of SerialNumber is 

TKV35FRG6HH84.

GetAsSVG(text)

text - any 

text

Returns text, converted to the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, an Internet text 

format similar to 

 or CSS. SVG supports more text formats than HTML, so SVG will 

represent what you have typed more accurately.

GetAsSVG(text) returns the example result (below) when the field text contains the 

word “Frank” and the word Frank has the following text attributes: Font = Helvetica, Font 
Size = 12 points, Font Color = red, Font Style = bold.
Example result: