To add a little bit to the text from Bill.

You can create an extra column in your datatable. Direct with that command
you can use the expression to fill the data that than converts the decimal
column to string. Than you can compare on this new column.

By the way, did you know that there are newsgroups
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb

That are newsgroups more specialized on questions like this, where for this
question the first one is in my opinion the right one.

Cor