| leading 0's trimmed from number column [message #36235] |
Mon, 12 November 2001 11:38  |
Tony
Messages: 190
Registered: June 2001
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Hi,
I have a column with datatype number(10) that has numbers such as 0012345678. Oracle's number property trims these leading zero's however. How can I keep those 0's? Thanks.
Tony
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: leading 0's trimmed from number column [message #36260 is a reply to message #36235] |
Tue, 13 November 2001 10:03  |
Tony
Messages: 190
Registered: June 2001
|
Senior Member |
|
|
I believe that's how I change the output for when I select the numbers from the column. However, I insert a number like 0001231234, and it is stored as 1231234 in the database...how can I store those leading zero's? Also, if I have a number such as 1234567, how can I pad 3 zero's to the left of that number?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
| Re: leading 0's trimmed from number column [message #36271 is a reply to message #36235] |
Wed, 14 November 2001 04:04 |
oraboy
Messages: 97
Registered: October 2001
|
Member |
|
|
nope! when you store 00001234 into a numeric field it goes only as 1234.
if you want to store as such you have to choose VARCHAR datatype
Otherwise, you can try setting NLS_FORMAT so that all numbers would have a format of 0000099.99
( like NLS_DATE_FORMAT)
Am not sure whether NLS_NUMBER_FORMAT is available
Regards
oraboy
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
] 
Blog
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
