Re: Looking for an SQL to append leading zeros

Donna,

 Try this:
select  digits(dec(substr(FIELD2, 1, 10)))
from  FILE
where FIELD1 IN ('NYC1','NYC2')

 -mark

   Thanks a lot Buck for your posting.
  I apologize I made a mistake in my posting, FIELD2 is defined as 18
char.

  select FIELD2 from FILE where FIELD1 IN ('NYC1','NYC2').


   I want to update FIELD2 with leading zeroes
    there by making it as 10 char value(wherever FIELD2 is less than 10
char) for FIELD1  in ('NYC1','NYC2')


  Donna

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