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rboya
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Hi,

I want to left pad a string based on a string length. I want to use it in transformations. Can I do it?

For ex: 1234 (I need to pad to 12 chars)
Expected Output : 000000001234 (8 zeros need to be padded)

I tried LPAD, LEFTPAD nothing seems to work.

Could you please let me know how can we achieve this?

Thank you in advance.

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Rboya

What output format are you using? If it is Excel I don't think they will display.


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rboya
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Thanks Chunk for your reply.

I am writing it to a flatfile.

How can we do it?


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MartinY
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This could be an option where I assume that your input is a text then stays as text
DEFINE FILE CAR
TEXT /A4  = '1234';
PAD  /I12 = EDIT(TEXT);
TPAD /A12 = EDIT(PAD);
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT TPAD
BY COUNTRY
END


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Thanks for your reply.

I am new to DM.

Trying to use function in transformations and getting below error.

0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 6 LINES= 6

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 49 IN PROCEDURE __WCFEX FOCEXEC *
(FOC263) EXTERNAL FUNCTION OR LOAD MODULE NOT FOUND: LPAD
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND


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DEFINE FILE CAR
SALES_A/A11=LPAD(EDIT(SALES),12,'0');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT SALES SALES_A
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
END


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