PadLeft function in T-SQL

Question

I have the following table A:

id
----
1
2
12
123
1234

I need to left-pad the id values with zero\'s:

id
----
0         


        

Answer 1

declare @T table(id int)
insert into @T values
(1),
(2),
(12),
(123),
(1234)

select right('0000'+convert(varchar(4), id), 4)
from @T

Result

----
0001
0002
0012
0123
1234

Answer 2

Try this:

SELECT RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',4)+CAST(Id AS VARCHAR(4)),4) FROM [Table A]

Answer 3

-- Please look into these.

select FORMAT(1, 'd4');
select FORMAT(2, 'd4');
select FORMAT(12, 'd4');
select FORMAT(123, 'd4');
select FORMAT(1234, 'd4');

-- I hope these would help you

Answer 4

I believe this may be what your looking for:

SELECT padded_id = REPLACE(STR(id, 4), SPACE(1), '0') 

FROM tableA

or

SELECT REPLACE(STR(id, 4), SPACE(1), '0') AS [padded_id]

FROM tableA

I haven't tested the syntax on the 2nd example. I'm not sure if that works 100% - it may require some tweaking - but it conveys the general idea of how to obtain your desired output.

EDIT

To address concerns listed in the comments...

@pkr298 - Yes STR does only work on numbers... The OP's field is an ID... hence number only.

@Desolator - Of course that won't work... the First parameter is 6 characters long. You can do something like:

SELECT REPLACE(STR(id,
(SELECT LEN(MAX(id)) + 4 FROM tableA)), SPACE(1), '0') AS [padded_id] FROM tableA

this should theoretically move the goal posts... as the number gets bigger it should ALWAYS work.... regardless if its 1 or 123456789...

So if your max value is 123456... you would see 0000123456 and if your min value is 1 you would see 0000000001

Answer 5

Something fairly ODBC compliant if needed might be the following:

select ifnull(repeat('0', 5 - (floor(log10(FIELD_NAME)) + 1)), '')
        + cast (FIELD as varchar(10))
  from TABLE_NAME

This bases on the fact that the amount of digits for a base-10 number can be found by the integral component of its log. From this we can subtract it from the desired padding width. Repeat will return null for values under 1 so we need ifnull.

Answer 6

I created a function to do this, where you can specify the desired output character length:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udfLeadingZero]
(
        @String VARCHAR(MAX)
,       @Len INT
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
BEGIN
    SET @String = RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',@Len)+@String,@Len)
RETURN @String
END
GO

Example results