Re: Looking for an SQL to append leading zeros

["rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

if your field is 10 alpha and all characters are either numbers or
blank, try this:

update myfile set myfield = digits(dec(myfield,10,0))

all blanks doesn't work, so do those separately.

if there are any non-blank non-numerics, all bets are off.

On 11/9/06, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >> select digits(FIELD2) from FILE where FIELD1 IN ('NYC1','NYC2')
>
> > This  does nt work for me.
> >   I want to update FIELD2 with leading
>  > zeroes wherever it finds a value less than 10 digits.
>
> It sounds like FIELD2 is already a numeric field.  If that's the case,
> then it is already stored with leading zeroes.  Perhaps you're really
> looking for a way to _present_ the value of FIELD2, so that the
> presentation includes leading zeroes?
>
> What are you using to see the value of FIELD2?  Debug?  A display file?
>  A report?  DSPPFM?  UPDDTA?
>
>   --buck
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