Adding Leading Zeros to a char value - TSQL Question

Hi all:

I have save stored procedure which does an insert and update. Before the insert or update statements, I have the following SQL to adding leading zeroes to in my input params:

DECLARE @.SchoolCode_Modified char(6)

SET @.SchoolCode_Modified = (SELECT Right(Replicate('0',6) + '123',6))

SELECT @.SchoolCode_Modified AS Col1

The problem is that this works on by itself on SSMS, but when incorporated in the SPROC, it doesnt add the leading zeros. The datatype for both of the colum is char(6) as well. If I run the above query in SQL Server Management Studio, it displays Col1 with 000123 in it, which is what I want, from the sproc, but that doesnt happen. Why? Can someone please help me? The following is how it is implemented in the SPROC:

CREATE PROCEDURE [LAF].[uspSaveLoanApplication]

...more params here

@.SchoolCode char(6),

@.BranchCode char(2),

@.PK int OUTPUT,

@.PreviousLoanApplicationStatus char(3) OUTPUT

AS

SET NOCOUNT OFF

SET @.PreviousLoanApplicationStatus = 0

IF EXISTS(SELECT [LoanApplicationStatusCode] FROM [LAF].[LoanApplication] WHERE [LoanApplicationID] = @.LoanApplicationID)

BEGIN

SET @.PreviousLoanApplicationStatus = (SELECT [LoanApplicationStatusCode] FROM [LAF].[LoanApplication] WHERE [LoanApplicationID] = @.LoanApplicationID)

SELECT @.PreviousLoanApplicationStatus PreviousLoanApplicationStatus

END

-- Add Leading Zeroes to School Code and Branch Code to conform with CLIPS Formatting

DECLARE @.SchoolCode_Modified char(6)

DECLARE @.BranchCode_Modified char(2)

SET @.SchoolCode_Modified = (SELECT Right(Replicate('0',6) + @.SchoolCode,6))

SET @.BranchCode_Modified = (SELECT Right(Replicate('0',2) + @.BranchCode,2))

IF EXISTS(SELECT [LoanApplicationID] FROM [LAF].[LoanApplication] WHERE [LoanApplicationID] = @.LoanApplicationID)

BEGIN

UPDATE [LAF].[LoanApplication] SET

....more here

[SchoolCode] = @.SchoolCode_Modified,

[BranchCode] = @.BranchCode_Modified,

...more here

WHERE

[LoanApplicationID] = @.LoanApplicationID

AND [UpdatedOn] = @.LastUpdated

SELECT @.LoanApplicationID PK

SET @.PK = @.LoanApplicationID

END

ELSE

BEGIN

INSERT INTO [LAF].[LoanApplication] (

.....more here

[SchoolCode],

[BranchCode],

.....more here

) VALUES (

....more here

@.SchoolCode_Modified,

@.BranchCode_Modified,

....more here

)

SET @.PK = SCOPE_IDENTITY()

SELECT @.PK PK

END

With a quick scan, your code appears correct.

How is it that you are finding that the values of @.SchoolCode_Modified and @.BranchCode_Modified do NOT have the leading zeros?

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It appears that your problem is that

@.SchoolCode is declared as char(6).

So it is NOT '123', but ' 123', i.e., 3 spaces followed by '123'.

It appears you must declare @.SchoolCode as varchar(6) if you want to get those leading zeroes in there.

Dan

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DanR1 wrote:

It appears that your problem is that

@.SchoolCode is declared as char(6).

So it is NOT '123', but ' 123', i.e., 3 spaces followed by '123'.

It appears you must declare @.SchoolCode as varchar(6) if you want to get those leading zeroes in there.

Dan

Good catch...

Actually, I don't think that it would be ' 123', but instead 'should' be '123 '. In either case though, adding preceding characters and then taking the rightmost 6 characters would not effect any change in the value.

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Arnie,

Yes, you are right about the trailing blanks, instead of leading blanks as I suggested. (I checked on it after I made my post, and figured it wasn't worth the trouble to make the edit.)

So it seems like "ltrim(rtrim(@.SchoolCode))" is what should be preceded by "000000" before taking the 6 rightmost characters.

Dan

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DECLARE @.SchoolCode_Modified char(6)

SET @.SchoolCode_Modified = '123'

SET @.SchoolCode_Modified = REPLICATE('0',6 -LEN(@.SchoolCode_Modified))+ @.SchoolCode_Modified

SELECT @.SchoolCode_Modified AS Col1