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Leading zero insertion?
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00315933
Message ID:
00315941
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>Can I condense this code where I am inserting leading zeroes?
>It's not easy to read and it's also hard to follow. All it does is insert leading zeroes so I can do a seek.
>
>IF VALU $ "0123456789"
> DO CASE
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 10
> SEEKIT = "0000000" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 100 AND VAL(VALU) > 9
> SEEKIT = "000000" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 1000 AND VAL(VALU) > 99
> SEEKIT = "00000" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 10000 AND VAL(VALU) > 999
> SEEKIT = "0000" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 100000 AND VAL(VALU) > 9999
> SEEKIT = "000" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 1000000 AND VAL(VALU) > 99999
> SEEKIT = "00" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 10000000 AND VAL(VALU) > 999999
> SEEKIT = "0" + UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> CASE VAL(VALU) < 100000000 AND VAL(VALU) > 9999999
> SEEKIT = UPPER(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.t_ln.VALUE))
> ENDCASE
>ENDIF
>
>Thanks in advance.

How about RIGHT(REPL('0',8)+ UPPER(ALLTRIM(thisform.t_ln.value),8)

or PADL(UPPER(ALLTRIM(thisform.t_ln.value)),8,'0')
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