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SSIS 2005 : Converting text file negative amounts

Asked by simon_kirk in SSIS

Hi,

I have a text file with several numeric amounts in it.  The amounts could be negative and if so, the field will show like this:  0000-5597.  This figure is actually -55.97.  

I have set up two derived column transformations to get to the required result.  This works, but I would like to know if there is a better way of doing it.  The code that I am using is included in the snippet.
 
I did try to combine the two transformations into one, but could not get it to work.
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Transformation one:
 
Derived UserAmountField1     REPLACE(UserAmountField1,"-","")
 
Transformation two:
 
Derived UseramountField1    (UserAmountField1 == [Derived UserAmountField1] ? (DT_NUMERIC,11,2)UserAmountField1 : ((DT_NUMERIC,11,2)[Derived UserAmountField1]) * -1) / 100
 
This is repeated for each numeric field in the source file.
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