Filter as number

Hi Roland,
I’m using PDB version 1.5.4.9. In the database there is a field, say “Number“, which is of type “text-line” (I want it’s a number but there is not number type). The value of this field is a integer number. I want to filter (in a search shortcode) like filter=’Number > $start & Number < $stop’ where $start and $stop are filter numbers. However filter doesn’t treat $start and $stop as numbers but as chars, so if $stop and start are 102 and 108 then filter returns 0 record found.

Question is there a way to use > and < operator for filtering Number in this case?

Thank you
Son

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