Blank values are returning as 0 in sharepoint workflow

I have a SharePoint list where one of the numeric fields values is blank. But when I take the value into a variable in designer workflow, It is returning 0. It needs to return blank.
How to solve this? Please guide me.
Regards,
Chaitanya.

check that the variable being used to store the value is a STRING.
if you have a NUMERIC variable, it can ONLY store NUMBERS. Since the source value is blank, it is assigned the default numeric value of 0.
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