Re: Looking for an SQL to append leading zeros

Mark,  with field2 as 18 characters, yours is better than mine.

On 11/9/06, M Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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