Re: Looking for an SQL to append leading zeros

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

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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