How to add zero "0" before record in a field?

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How to add zero "0" before record in a field?..

Answer / santhu

Sorry its not String we shoud use str("0",1)

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How to add zero "0" before record in a field?..

Answer / ranjan

use the below function to add "0" in transformer

"0" : fieldname

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How to add zero "0" before record in a field?..

Answer / santhu

Ranjan is right but when we want add 4 zeros("0")then By Using String Function we can do that

String("o",1):Column name
Here 1 is how many zeros we want

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How to add zero "0" before record in a field?..

Answer / dhanasekar

Str(%string%,%repeats%) is the function used in transformer to repeat a string for a number of times we required.

%String%-> represents the string we want to repeat
%repeats%->its a no represents how many times the string to be repeated.

Example: Str("0",1):Column_name

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