[RESOLVED] padding zeroes for integers or strings

[Polgi-Wan]

Good day.... I am trying to pad zeroes to a 5 digit ID number..

instead of 123, 4356, 78995, I would like to see 00123, 04356, 78995

Below doesn't seem to work:

My_String = SPrintF("%5d", xvalue)

or

MyString = String$((5 - Len (str$(xvalue))), "0") & str$(xvalue)

Thanks in advance,,,,,

[anhn]

You can have
MyString = String$(5 - Len(CStr(x)), "0") & CStr(x)
or
MyString = Right$("00000" & CStr(x), 5)
but you will have a truncated string if x has more than 5 digits.
However, you may want that, otherwise use this:
MyString = Format$(x, "00000")

[Polgi-Wan]

hello anhn, thanks so much...

both lines work!

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