Re: padding field with zeros

[Paul DuBois]

At 10:11 -0700 10/11/02, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Does MySQL provide for any way to "pad" a field? I have accounts numbers
>that vary from 3-5 digits, and would like them 8 digits padded by zeros
>(479 becomes 00000479, 17234 becomes 00017234, etc). I know I could
>probably write a script to fix that before entering the data into the
>database, but I just wanted to know. Or maybe there is a way to pad it
>while doing the query select?

INT(8) ZEROFILL, perhaps?

>
>Thanks,
>
>	Bryan