Try: X = FMT(X,'4"0"R') ... works here on UniData 6.1 Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services
-----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Woodward Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 12:17 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Simple FMT question Hi Group, I don't know why this is kicking my butt but I'm trying to do a simple X = FMT(X,"4\0R") statement, straight out of the HELP UNIBASIC listing and I can't seem to get it to work. The problem is the fill character, in this case the number zero, but what I get back is just the letter "R", without the quote marks. I get pretty much the same result no matter what fill character I use. I simply want to format a number to be 4 characters long with leading zeros. If X="1", then it should result in X="0001", or so I've been lead to believe. I know that X = ("0000":X)[4] works to get my results but FMT should work, too. The major benefit is that if the number is more than 4 digits, FMT won't truncate it. I hope..... Environment is UniData 6.1 on a Windows server. Comments anyone? Thanks, BobW _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
