Beth,
One final note: if your numeric field is an integer, then use bintoc()
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>Great! Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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>>Beth,
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>>For the char fields, a padr() may not be necessary, unless you want only a part of the char field, ie left(...)
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>>For numerics, you want to padl(field, len, '0') to keep the numeric sequence
Gregory