String Manipulation splitting

Hi , I have a peculiar issue.
There is a string of length 10.
it will always start with a numeric value however it can have alphanumeric charaters there after.
for example :
1
1A
2BC
23A
123B etc.....
I have to pick only the numeric values for comparison
like 1 ,1 , 2,23, 123 with another field that holds only numeric characters.
how can I achieve this.
THanks

Try this,
data: lv_char type c length 20 value '12ab34c5'.
data: lv_num type n length 10.
lv_num = lv_char.
write lv_num.
Thanks,
SKJ

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