lavascript Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I need to expand a string to a predetermined length using a fill character. In this case, I'm reading a CSV file, and I need to take the employee number, which can be anywhere between 3 and 6 characters, and expand it to eight using leading zeros. My current method uses a Switch statement, but I was wondering if there was a UDF I had overlooked, or a more elegant or clever way to go about it than: Switch StringLen($empNum[$i]) Case 2 $hralias="HR000000"&$empNum[$i] Case 3 $hralias="HR00000"&$empNum[$i] Case 4 $hralias="HR0000"&$empNum[$i] Case 5 $hralias="HR000"&$empNum[$i] Case 6 $hralias="HR00"&$empNum[$i] Case 7 $hralias="HR0"&$empNum[$i] Case 8 $hralias="HR"&$empNum[$i] EndSwitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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