Strip leading zeros of a field and add a zero to the back of a field.

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Strip leading zeros of a field and add a zero to the back of a field.

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C-kweldude

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:10 PM

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Hi Guys

I have a field called Account.

It consits of the following sample data.

0090
>100
0091
0092

I need a script that will strip the leading zero of the 0090 data and the another to add a zero to the back.

So in the end, the sample data will look like this (With the >100 data not being affected.

0900
>100
0910
0920

Thanking you in Advance.

Andre

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C-kweldude

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:55 PM

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Hi Again

Further to this I have also tried the following

UPDATE tablename
SET column = Ltrim(column,'0');

But i get this when I parse

Msg 174, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
The ltrim function requires 1 argument(s).

Any ideas?

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mister.magoo

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:57 PM

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update tablename
set column = stuff(column,1,1,'')+'0'
where column like '009_';

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C-kweldude

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:15 PM

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Hi Miste.Magoo

Thanks for that, worked like a dream.

Appreciate the assistance! Smile

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mister.magoo

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:21 AM

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C-kweldude (2/20/2013)

Hi Miste.Magoo

Thanks for that, worked like a dream.

Appreciate the assistance! Smile

You are most welcome Smile

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