From: Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com>
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Datatype conversion help
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:26:23 -0700
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You want to use:

nachbaur=# select to_char(5, '00');
 to_char
---------
  05
(1 row)

By using "0", you indicate you want leading zeros.  See 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=functions-formatting.html 
for more information.

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 01:07 pm, Yasir Malik wrote:
> Suppose I have an integer between 0 and 99 and I want to covert it to
> string, and pad leading zeros if neccessary.  For example,
> 1  => 01
> 10 => 10
>
> I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two
> charecters, but there isn't a leading zero incase I have the number 2 as
> input.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
> Yasir
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