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Equivalent to PADL()?
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17/10/2012 14:25:31
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Microsoft SQL Server
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SQL syntax
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SQL Server 2008
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01555196
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01555198
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>I'm "translating" an SQL statement from VFP and one of the fields I'm pulling needs to be nchar(3) left filled with '0'.
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>In VFP it's PADL(alltrim(str(eclscore)),3,'0') - eclscore is a numeric, so I know I need to Cast(eclscore as nchar(3)), but I can't seem to find the PADL replacement - what should I be using to do the PADL?


http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/03/10/sql-server-pad-ride-side-of-number-with-0-fixed-width-number-display/

By the way, In foxpro I would do transform(eclscore, '@L 999')
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