Hi all,

I have this SP that needs to cast a varchar to an integer.

Others fill the table, and the varchar should have a content that is
convertible to an integer, but sometimes the contents of the varchar is
not convertible to an integer because it contains e.g. 'a'.

I know I'm working around a design-problem.

However, is something like this possible inside an SP ?
(in meta delphi language using try... except):

...
try
select first 1 cast(answer as integer)
from answer_table
where .....
into i_answer
except
i_answer = -1
end

IOW, how to trap the conversion-error if answer = 'a' and produce -1 as
a result?

tia!
John