Re: Leading Zeros

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm pretty sure if you just MOVE the field into a string the
zeros will be retained.

Brad

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:12:22 -0600
 "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@taylorcorp.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am developing a string that is used for the name of a
> file that I am
> creating in the IFS.  I am using numeric values in the
> string and I don't
> want the leading zeros to be suppressed.  For example:
>
> field1 = 0000001
> field2 = 0000012
>
> eval filename = field1 + field2 + '.txt'
>
> 00000010000012.txt -vs- 112.txt
>
> The file names are much more involved than the above and
> I don't want to do
> a move because I am guessing that there is something else
> that can be used.
> I have looked at %char, %editc, and %editw and none of
> them appear to do
> what I am asking.
>
> help. . .