The reply assumes that the ID variable is a number. Is it a string or a
number? If it is a string, is it displayed left-justified or right-justified
within the data editor? That will determine how to modify the string value.
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formats ID (n6).
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion on behalf of Don Asay
Sent: Mon 1/7/2008 5:54 PM
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Subject: Adding Leading Zeros To An ID
I have an ID variable that should be 6 charachters long some ranging from
000001 to 999999. Some of the records lost their leading zeros so instead of
having 000015 the computer stored 15, this is not the case for all of the
IDs with leading zeros some are stored properly as 000023 and the very next
one wil be 24 without the leading zeros. I want to create syntax to add the
leading zeros, but I can't figure out how to conditionally prepend the zeros
to just the cases that don't already have them. Any help would be
appreciated.
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