Hi Michael,

Since I used Clipper in the past and having to run some inherited code, I made this simple function to handle this in Fox.

function strzero
    lparameters nExp,nStrLen
    return right('00000000000000000000000000000000000000' + allt(str(nExp)), nStrLen)

Never had any problems with it.

Rgds++
Sergio


>>Hmm, interesting. I didn't know you could use PADL() with a general expression, I thought it had to be a string.
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>tnNumero comes from an object property This.nNumero which is initialize from a cursor field which comes from a table on an integer field. So, if I select a field in a cursor that is an integer, store that in a property, I should end up with the proper value.
>
>IAC, as I said, I have this at various other levels as well. I have experienced this with VFP 9. Basically, I read a HTML form value with WWC object, such as Request.Form, and sometimes, I end up as well with that behavior when getting the VAL() value of what Request.Form returns. It simply just doesn't make any sense. I have started to put INT() mostly everywhere I am using PADL() now.