Re: Datatype conversion help

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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