See the ZEROFILL column attribute:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Column_types.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Numeric_types.html
If necessary, you can use an ALTER TABLE command to add that
attribute to the appropriate columns.
- steve
At 10:11 AM -0700 10/11/02, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Does MySQL provide for any way to "pad" a field? I have accounts numbers
>that vary from 3-5 digits, and would like them 8 digits padded by zeros
>(479 becomes 00000479, 17234 becomes 00017234, etc). I know I could
>probably write a script to fix that before entering the data into the
>database, but I just wanted to know. Or maybe there is a way to pad it
>while doing the query select?
>
>Thanks,
>
> Bryan
>
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