Waterloo Script string functions

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From: Hannah Appl. Kaufman
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:18

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I am trying to create a padded string with leading zeros using
Waterloo Script 88.1 functions and am having no luck.  The
simplest would be the &'right function -

.sr num = 11
.sr newnum = &'right(&num,7,'0')

However, this gives me &newnum as 11, left-justified with no zeros.
What I want is 0000011 if the number is 11, and 0000111 if the
number has 3 digits, etc.

I've tried using the &'overlay and &'insert functions with similar
problems.  Anyone know a solution?

Thanks,
Hannah Kaufman

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