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Suzanne
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I have an A2 field that is determined by using the GETTOK command. I need the first character to be zero if the result is only one character. Any ideas?


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jimster06
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FIELD2/A02 = IF EDIT(FIELD1,'9') EQ ' '
THEN '0' | EDIT(FIELD1, '$9')
ELSE FIELD1;

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You could turn it into a number and add 100 and edit the last 2 characters, something like

DEFINE FILE CAR
FLD1/A2=;
FLD2/I2=EDIT(FLD1);
FLD3/I3=100+FLD2;
FLD4/A3=EDIT(FLD3);
FLD5/A3=EDIT(FLD4,'$99');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT FLD1 FLD5
END
 
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Francis Mariani
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The simplest way is to use edit to conver the A2 to I2 and then back to A2:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COMPUTE TEST1/A2 = ' 3';
COMPUTE TEST2/I2 = EDIT(TEST1);
COMPUTE TEST3/A2 = EDIT(TEST2);
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END


Francis


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Suzanne
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Didn't work... result is still only one character

FIELD2/A02 = IF EDIT(FIELD1,'9') EQ ' '
THEN '0' | EDIT(FIELD1, '$9')
ELSE FIELD1;


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Suzanne
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Converting the A2 to I2 and then back to A2 did the trick... Thanks!


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susannah
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there's always
newfield/A4='00' || oldfield ;
newfield/A4=RJUST(4,newfield,newfield);
newerfield/A2=SUBSTRING(4,newfield,3,4,2,'A2');



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JimRice
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Hi Suzanne,

There's a formatting option of an 'L' that can be used with numeric fields which will retain leading zeroes. I use this most when I create extract files that need leading zeroes to be retained (ON TABLE HOLD AS MYFILE FORMAT ALPHA).

Here's an example using the CAR table:

DEFINE FILE CAR
CNT/I2 WITH MODEL = CNT + 1;
A_CNT/A2 WITH MODEL = IF CNT EQ 1 THEN '1' ELSE '2';
I_CNT/I2L WITH MODEL = EDIT(A_CNT);
-*
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
MODEL
CNT
A_CNT
I_CNT
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 2
END

Jim


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