What about lpad?
select lpad (7, 2, 0) || '-' || lpad (9, 2, '0') || '-2003'; ?column?
------------07-09-2003
(1 row)
I hope, it helps...
Dima
Yasir Malik wrote:
>Thank you so much! But my problem is that when I do
>to_char(mn, '00') || '-' || to_char(dy, '00') || '-' || to_char(yr,
>'9999')
>
>where mn, dy, and yr are ints, is that the output has a space after the
>the dash. For example, I get
>07- 25- 1994
>
>instead of what I want:
>07-25-1994
>
>Thanks,
>Yasir
>
>On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Richard Rowell wrote:
>
>
>
>>Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:21:33 -0500
>>From: Richard Rowell <richard@bowmansystems.com>
>>To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
>>Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
>>
>>On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:07, Yasir Malik wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two
>>>
>>>
>>select to_char(9,'00');
>>
>>
>>
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