Kbase P125098: How to keep the leading zeroes of an integer field when casting it into a string?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
30/07/2007 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
How to keep the leading zeroes of an integer field when casting it into a string?
GOAL:
How to keep the leading zeroes of an integer variable when casting it into a string?
FIX:
This solutions shows how to keep the leading zeroes of an integer field or variable when casting to a string.
If the format is not specified with the STRING statement the leading zeroes are suppressed.
DEF VAR i AS INT FORMAT "9999999999" INIT 12345.
DISPLAY i.
DEF VAR c AS CHAR FORMAT "x(10)".
c = STRING(i, "999999999").
DISPLAY c.