How to convert a number stored as text to as integer with formating

Hi,
Can someone say me how to convert a Numeric data that is stored in a Varchar column to an integer.
Say, I have a Value "-.84566666" in a column which is of data type VARCHAR and I want to show this data as "-0.8456", i.e. I want to display it as an Interger after formating it to have only 4 decimal place value etc.
Is there any inbuilt function in oracle for this?
Thanks,

Take a look at builtin TO_NUMBER / TO_CHAR functions.
SELECT TO_CHAR(TO_NUMBER('-.84566666'), 'SD9999')
FROM dual;C.

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