>>Hi everybody,
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>>yAmount is a currency field.
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>>PADL(yAmount,9,'0') returns an empty string.
>>PADL(CAST(yAmount as Numeric (9,2)),9,'0') returns the result correctly.
>>
>>Looks like a bug to me.
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>Borislav has pointed out why this happens, but it still looks like at least a doc problem to me, if not a bug. Currency is supposed to be a valid type in the expression.
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>It looks like the currency gets implicitly converted to a width of 21 characters, with leading spaces. If you specify anything less (e.g. length "n"), what you get back is the first n characters of that 21 character string. If you specify more than 21, you get the 21-length converted currency number with leading zeroes. For example
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>PADL( $123.4567, 25, "0" ) -> "0000             123.4567"
>PADL( $123.4567, 23, "0" ) -> "00             123.4567"
>PADL( $123.4567, 21, "0" ) -> "             123.4567"
>PADL( $123.4567, 19, "0" ) -> "             123.45"
>PADL( $123.4567, 16, "0" ) -> "             123"
>PADL( $123.4567, 14, "0" ) -> "             1"
>...etc.
>

Al, thanks a lot.