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Remove decimal places and force leading zeros

fergusoj

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April 7, 2011 at 7:25 am

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I have output for scores that have 2 decimal places (all zeros). I need to remove the decimal places and return a 4 character number in int format. Example: 65.00 must return as 0065; 108.00 must return as 0108. Can anyone help?

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Richard Warr SSCertifiable Points: 6963 More actions · Answer 1

SELECT RIGHT('000'+CAST(CAST(MyField AS INT) AS VARCHAR(4)),4) should do the trick

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fergusoj

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April 7, 2011 at 7:37 am

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That worked perfectly. Thank you!

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August 5, 2011 at 8:06 am

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thanks for the info

Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 4

SELECT RIGHT('000'+CAST(CAST(MyField * 100.0 AS INT) AS VARCHAR(4)),4)

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stimetb SSC Enthusiast Points: 193 More actions · Answer 5

What happens if you have digits to right of decimal?

declare @value3 integer

@value3 = 197.81

SELECT RIGHT('000'+CAST(CAST(@value3 AS INT) AS VARCHAR(7)),7)

gives value 000197

any help on this would be appreciated.

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 6

stimetb (10/17/2012)
What happens if you have digits to right of decimal?
declare @value3 integer
@value3 = 197.81
SELECT RIGHT('000'+CAST(CAST(@value3 AS INT) AS VARCHAR(7)),7)
gives value 000197
any help on this would be appreciated.

Do you want to keep the decimal values? If so, declare the variable as something that will do what you need, then don't cast it to Int inside the string function.

Declaring the variable as Int drops the decimal value before you even begin formatting it.

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stimetb SSC Enthusiast Points: 193 More actions · Answer 7

just realized that - i switched it over to money and am working with it

thanks

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86908 More actions · Answer 8

Here's another way (just foolin' around):

;WITH MyData AS (

SELECT score=65.00 UNION ALL SELECT 108.00 UNION ALL SELECT 1108.00)

SELECT LEFT(REVERSE(CAST(REVERSE(score) AS DECIMAL(8,4))), 4)

FROM MyData

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stimetb SSC Enthusiast Points: 193 More actions · Answer 9

Now i have a field that is getting populated from 2 other fields based on which was in not null. We removed decimal point and 0 front filled it.

This is what I'm currently doing:

(CASE

WHEN edm.Percentage IS NULL THEN

(ISNULL(RIGHT ('00000000' + CONVERT (varchar (7), FLOOR (ABS (ROUND(edm.amount,2) * 100.0))),7),0))

else

(ISNULL(RIGHT ('00000000' + CONVERT (varchar (7), FLOOR (ABS (ROUND(edm.Percentage,2) * 100.0))),7),0))

end)

inside a select statement,

We are inputting this data in a card that will split this field up.

first 2 bytes go on 1 card and next 5 bytes go on 2nd card

i tried A SCALAR value.

but the problem i had was it gave me a constant on the field because i assigned it outside of the insert/select statement and wasnt sure how to do it inside the statement.