>James,
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>>I didn't know you could specify the decimal length with a padl function?
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>You can't, but since his calls were all doing no decimal places padl() will work. If you need decimal places you can use a str() inside the padl():
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? padl( alltrim( str( lnTheNumber, 10, 5 ) ), 10, '0' )

It can also be done with TRANSFORM()

? TRANSFORM(lnTheNumber, "@L 9999.99999")