>I have a table that has three fields and one is numeric. I want to copy the fields type sdf but I want to padl() the numeric field with one zero. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to add a character field and replace the numeric field over and then copy.
>
>tried:
>copy fields padl((str(chargecode)),9,"0"),... to file type sdf.
>
>Any ideas?
>Thanks,
Eric,

As Vlad mentioned you can't do that directly with the copy command. You can, however, use an SQL Select statement to format the field (as I mention), then copy it.