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How to keep leading zeros in a numeric field when converting it to string?

fere
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I have this as part of my query: eval this_move=tostring(seq)."-."screen
Only I need to make sure seq is treated as 2 digit number before converting to string. Is there a way to do that?

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aholzer
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This should get you what want you need:

<base search> | eval temp=if(length(seq)<2,"0"+seq,seq) | eval this_move=temp+"-"+screen

I split it into two eval statements to make it easier to understand what's going on, but you can consolidate it into a single eval statement if you prefer.

Note: I assume that "screen" is a string field that you want to concatenate with "seq" field

Hope this helps

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aholzer
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This should get you what want you need:

<base search> | eval temp=if(length(seq)<2,"0"+seq,seq) | eval this_move=temp+"-"+screen

I split it into two eval statements to make it easier to understand what's going on, but you can consolidate it into a single eval statement if you prefer.

Note: I assume that "screen" is a string field that you want to concatenate with "seq" field

Hope this helps

fere
Path Finder

thanks for your help

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