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Text-formatting DCL Lexical Functions? F$FAO?

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The Question is:

 
How do I convert a number into a six character string with padded zeroes using
 DCL?
 
I have a sequence number with leading zeroes held in a file.  I open the file
 and read this number, which is considered a string e.g. "000030".  When I
 increment this number it gets converted to an integer i.e 30.  Before writing
 this back to the file I n
eed to replace the leading zeroes.
 
There does not appear to be a lexical function to replace the zeroes only
 f$edit to remove them.

The Answer is :

 
  $ x = f$fao("!6ZL", f$integer("000030") + 1 )
  $ show symbol x
    X = "000031"
  $
 


  

     
     
answer written or last revised on ( 23-SEP-2004 )

     
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