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st: leading zeros in string format
From
Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: leading zeros in string format
Date
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:24:44 -0500
HI
I am trying to convert a string variable to a string variable with
fixed numbers
My string variable has following observations:
1223435
34567
345
I want to convert it to another string variable with leading zeros
1223435
0034567
0000345
format var "%07.0f" didnt work
Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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