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Anonymous
Sep 3, 2008 4:12 AM UTC
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display leading zeros

How to take an integer with no leading zeros and display it with leading zeros?

Thank you in advance.
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    darbus23Correct answer
    Inspiring
    Sep 3, 2008 1:04 PM UTC
    #NumberFormat(Your_Integer, 0000)# is an example that will take a number and pad it with up to 4 leading zeroes.
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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    Sep 3, 2008 1:05 PM UTC
    There are a couple of ways. Let's say you are looking for 7 digits altogether.

    Method 1
    NewString = '0000000' & thenumber;
    NewString = right(newString, 7);

    Method 2
    while (len(thenumber) lt 7)
    thenumber = '0' & thenumber;
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    mkseto1
    Participant
    Sep 20, 2019 7:59 PM UTC

    I'm totally new to Acrobat:

    In a fillable form, I have created a 5-digit numeric field but I actually need to pad the user-entry with leading zero's so that, for exmaple, if user entered "123", the field would become "00123". I assume the field needs to be formatted as "Custom" instead of "Number" but don't know what to put in "Custom Format Script". Again I have zero knowledge, so I'm hoping someone can tell me exactly how to do this .... much appreciated.

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    darbus23Correct answer
    Inspiring
    Sep 3, 2008 1:04 PM UTC
    #NumberFormat(Your_Integer, 0000)# is an example that will take a number and pad it with up to 4 leading zeroes.
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    Sep 3, 2008 4:38 AM UTC
    repeatstring() function comes to mind...

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