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add a leading character

Kurt Knippel
in FileMaker Legacy fp3 and fp5

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quote:
Originally posted by ScottHaneda:

I have a DB that has several thousand zip codes in at that lost a leading character...for example, 1568 should be 01568.

Anyone know how I can insert a "0" in front of all of them?

Replace (ZipCode, Left("00000" & ZipCode, 5)).

This should give you a 5 char zip code every time, with zeros filling in the missing numbers.

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I have a DB that has several thousand zip codes in at that lost a leading character...for example, 1568 should be 01568.

Anyone know how I can insert a "0" in front of all of them?

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