Does Not Contain Numeric Characters

The STRTONUM function extracts numeric data from the beginning of a string, and returns the numbers as Number-type data.

This error message occurs if:

  • the string provided contains no numeric characters, or
  • the string’s numeric characters are not at the beginning of the string

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SOLUTION

Make sure the string provided contains numerical character(s) at the beginning of the string.