Hi Bob,
Tryany of these:
X = 1
FMT(X, 'MD%4') =0001
FMT(X, 'MR%4') =0001
FMT(X, 'R%4') =0001
X 'MD%4' =0001
X 'R%4' =0001
These all; work in Jbase, Universe flavor, YMMV.
Regards,
Charlie Noah
On 07-08-2011 2:17 PM, Bob Woodward wrote:
Hi Group,
I don't know why this is kicking my butt but I'm trying to do a simple X
= FMT(X,"4\0R") statement, straight out of the HELP UNIBASIC listing and
I can't seem to get it to work. The problem is the fill character, in
this case the number zero, but what I get back is just the letter "R",
without the quote marks. I get pretty much the same result no matter
what fill character I use. I simply want to format a number to be 4
characters long with leading zeros. If X="1", then it should result in
X="0001", or so I've been lead to believe.
I know that X = ("0000":X)[4] works to get my results but FMT should
work, too. The major benefit is that if the number is more than 4
digits, FMT won't truncate it. I hope.....
Environment is UniData 6.1 on a Windows server. Comments anyone?
Thanks,
BobW
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