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concat with leading zero's
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Published: 11 Feb 2014
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concat with leading zero's Published by: renojim on 11 Feb 2014 view comments(3)

Anybody know how to return two integers in an sql statement, preserving any leading zeros in the second integer?

So if the fields are 1,0 and 4,0 respectively, and the values are

1  and 0002

I can select concat(firstfield, secondfield) (or '||', if you prefer), and get

10002.

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Posted by: DaleB
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Comment on: concat with leading zero's
Posted: 10 years 2 months 15 days 4 hours 12 minutes ago

DIGITS function will do it.

SELECT CONCAT(DIGITS(firstfield), DIGITS(secondfield))

It uses absolute value of the number, so if your values can ever be negative, you'll want some sort of CASE to deal with the sign.

Posted by: tdaly
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Comment on: concat with leading zero's
Posted: 10 years 2 months 15 days 3 hours 58 minutes ago
select ((fld1 * 10000) + fld2) as myfld
Posted by: renojim
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Comment on: concat with leading zero's
Posted: 10 years 2 months 15 days 3 hours 46 minutes ago

Excellent!! Thanks.