Thanks Sergey
you've saved my weekend, have a good one yourself.
Slán
~M

>>hi all
>>i am writing a module to link into SAP and have everything working bar one piece. i have to create a file and in that i have to represent a number in a specific way so that the number 6.2 would become 0000000006200. any ideas how to do this?
>>Slán
>>~M
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lnNumber = 6.2
>PADL(INT(lnNumber*100), 12, "0")