I think you can do it with NumberFormat().
NumberFormat(myNumber,'0000000')
You can pad the other way, but I wouldn't loop. I'd use RepeatString():
RepeatString('0',7-Len(myNumber)) & myNumber
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Turetsky, Seth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: padding zeros
>
>
> I'm displaying an id, which in the long run may change length
> from say 6 digits to 7. So to keep it standard, I want to
> pad a zero in front of the 6's.
> Would this be done with numberformat or should i grab the
> length of the id and loop spitting out the number of zero's i want?
>
> thanks,
> seth
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