Skip to main content

This is a newbie question.


I have a sequence of numbers in my inventory and these are not auto generated, so I am either working with Number or Formula here.


I am trying to add zeros to a sequence so that all numbers have 6 digits. Currently, my numbers start at 0 and go up to 4 digits, I think I am looking for an If / Then LEN formula, but I can’t figure out the syntax to make it work.


For example, I need 5 to read as 000005, and I need 1401 to read 001401. etc.


Thanks in advance.



Even simpler than that:


RIGHT("000000" & {Merch Inventory...}, 6)

Even simpler than that:


RIGHT("000000" & {Merch Inventory...}, 6)

Fantastic! That works perfectly. Thank you. Can you explain a little more about what the RIGHT command is? I thought it would be a LEN command. But I am really a novice.

Fantastic! That works perfectly. Thank you. Can you explain a little more about what the RIGHT command is? I thought it would be a LEN command. But I am really a novice.


RIGHT() says “return the last t#] characters at the end of a string”. There is also the “cousin” function LEFT() which does the same thing except its “return the first t#] characters”.


LEN() returns “how many characters are in a string”. It also only works on strings so you would have to force your numbers to be strings by doing #&"". So a LEN solution would be something like


IF(

LEN({Merch Inventory...}&"") = 1,

"00000" & {Merch Inventory...},

IF(

LEN({Merch Inventory...}&"") = 2,

"0000" & {Merch Inventory...},

IF(

LEN({Merch Inventory...}&"") = 3,

"000" & {Merch Inventory...},

IF(

LEN({Merch Inventory...}&"") = 4,

"00" & {Merch Inventory...},

IF(

LEN({Merch Inventory...}&"") = 5,

"0" & {Merch Inventory...},

IF(

LEN({Merch Inventory...}&"") = 6,

{Merch Inventory...}

))))))

Reply


Terms & Conditions