Re: Looking for an SQL to append leading zeros

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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