Format money value as padded string

[paulmac106]

Ok my last formatting question.

How can I insert a money value as a padded string in another table?

example $1.25 gets inserted to another table as 00000125

I want 8 total characters and no decimal

another example would be 4,225.99 becomes 00422599

can this be done?

thank you!!

[Roy Harvey]

declare @m money
set @m = $1.25

select @m, RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',8) +
convert(varchar(8),convert(int,@m*100)),8)

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT

On 22 Feb 2007 10:15:08 -0800, pa********@gmail.com wrote:

>Ok my last formatting question.

How can I insert a money value as a padded string in another table?

example $1.25 gets inserted to another table as 00000125

I want 8 total characters and no decimal

another example would be 4,225.99 becomes 00422599

can this be done?

thank you!!

[Utahduck]

On Feb 22, 11:33 am, Roy Harvey <[e-mail]:

declare @m money
set @m = $1.25

select @m, RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',8) +
convert(varchar(8),convert(int,@m*100)),8)

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT

On 22 Feb 2007 10:15:08 -0800, [e-mail] wrote:

Ok my last formatting question.

How can I insert a money value as a padded string in another table?

example $1.25 gets inserted to another table as 00000125

I want 8 total characters and no decimal

another example would be 4,225.99 becomes 00422599

can this be done?

thank you!!

I had a similar project. I did this and it works great:

REPLACE(REPLACE(CONVERT(char(8), @m), '.', ''), ' ', '0')

-Utah

[paulmac106]

thanks that worked great.

any idea why this doesn't work:

REPLACE(CONVERT(CHAR(4),SUM(tblLines.fldUnits)),' ','0')

it just won't seem to put the zero in....very strange

i get this for 15: '15 '

[Erland Sommarskog]

(pa********@gmail.com) writes:

thanks that worked great.

any idea why this doesn't work:

REPLACE(CONVERT(CHAR(4),SUM(tblLines.fldUnits)),' ','0')

it just won't seem to put the zero in....very strange

i get this for 15: '15 '

Good question. Seems like the reailing spaces are stripped when the
string is passed to replace(). Probably, because there is a conversion
to varchar, but trailing spaces should be retained, as long as the
setting ANSI_PADDING is in effect.

It looks like a bug to me.

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[paulmac106]

i got it to work using:

RIGHT('0000'+REPLACE(SUM(tblLines.fldUnits), ' ', '0'), 4)

results in 0015 where SUM(tblLines.fldUnits)=15

[Erland Sommarskog]

Erland Sommarskog (es****@sommarskog.se) writes:

(pa********@gmail.com) writes:

>thanks that worked great.

any idea why this doesn't work:

REPLACE(CONVERT(CHAR(4),SUM(tblLines.fldUnits)) ,' ','0')

it just won't seem to put the zero in....very strange

i get this for 15: '15 '

Good question. Seems like the reailing spaces are stripped when the
string is passed to replace(). Probably, because there is a conversion
to varchar, but trailing spaces should be retained, as long as the
setting ANSI_PADDING is in effect.

It looks like a bug to me.

For what it's worth, I submitted
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLSer...dbackID=259840

But since it works this way in SQL 2000, I would not really expect
any fix. It could break existing code.
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
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[Steve Kass]

Erland,

I've submitted a workaround to this Feedback item. If you
concatenate the empty string '' to the CHAR value before
REPLACE is applied, the hidden conversion to VARCHAR
retains the trailing blanks.

declare @t char(6)
set @t = 'A'
select
replace(@t,space(1),'*'),
replace(@t+'',space(1),'*')

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Erland Sommarskog wrote:

Erland Sommarskog (es****@sommarskog.se) writes:

>(pa********@gmail.com) writes:

>>>thanks that worked great.

any idea why this doesn't work:

REPLACE(CONVERT(CHAR(4),SUM(tblLines.fldUnits)) ,' ','0')

it just won't seem to put the zero in....very strange

i get this for 15: '15 '

Good question. Seems like the reailing spaces are stripped when the
string is passed to replace(). Probably, because there is a conversion
to varchar, but trailing spaces should be retained, as long as the
setting ANSI_PADDING is in effect.

It looks like a bug to me.

For what it's worth, I submitted
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLSer...dbackID=259840

But since it works this way in SQL 2000, I would not really expect
any fix. It could break existing code.