https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Fill-a-camp/m-p/20129#M4168 How can I fill a field with characters '0' by the left?<BR /> <BR /> If my field contains the string "123" and its length is 5, I want it to contain the string "00123"....I can´t use the instruction LPAD in SQL... Thu, 22 May 2008 17:25:35 GMT deleted_user 2008-05-22T17:25:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Fill-a-camp/m-p/20129#M4168 How can I fill a field with characters '0' by the left?<BR /> <BR /> If my field contains the string "123" and its length is 5, I want it to contain the string "00123"....I can´t use the instruction LPAD in SQL... Thu, 22 May 2008 17:25:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Fill-a-camp/m-p/20129#M4168 deleted_user 2008-05-22T17:25:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Fill-a-camp/m-p/20130#M4169 It's call the "Zw.d" format.<BR /> <BR /> You can get to the SAS documentation for SAS 8, 9.1.x and 9.2 off the web. within the documentation, look for BaseSAS, Language Dictionary, Formats. Fri, 23 May 2008 12:09:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Fill-a-camp/m-p/20130#M4169 deleted_user 2008-05-23T12:09:52Z