On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:30:36 -0500,
Terry Lee Tucker <terry@esc1.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:20 am, John Sidney-Woollett saith:
> > Not sure if there is a numeric formatting option that allows what you want.
> >
> > But how about?
> >
> > substr(to_char(1029, '9,999'),2)
>
> That's so simple, I'm embarrased ;o)
>
> Thanks for the help...
You can also us 'FM' to get rid of extra space. From the to_char docs:
FM suppresses leading zeroes and trailing blanks that would otherwise be added
to make the output of a pattern be fixed-width.
