PadLeft function in T-SQL

Question

I have the following table A:

id
----
1
2
12
123
1234

I need to left-pad the id values with zero\'s:

id
----
0         


        

Answer 1

My solution is not efficient but helped me in situation where the values (bank cheque numbers and wire transfer ref no.) were stored as varchar where some entries had alpha numeric values with them and I had to pad if length is smaller than 6 chars.

Thought to share if someone comes across same situation

declare @minlen int = 6
declare @str varchar(20)

set @str = '123'
select case when len(@str) < @minlen then REPLICATE('0',@minlen-len(@str))+@str else @str end
--Ans: 000123

set @str = '1234'
select case when len(@str) < @minlen then REPLICATE('0',@minlen-len(@str))+@str else @str end
--Ans: 001234

set @str = '123456'
select case when len(@str) < @minlen then REPLICATE('0',@minlen-len(@str))+@str else @str end
--Ans: 123456

set @str = '123456789'
select case when len(@str) < @minlen then REPLICATE('0',@minlen-len(@str))+@str else @str end
--Ans: 123456789

set @str = '123456789'
select case when len(@str) < @minlen then REPLICATE('0',@minlen-len(@str))+@str else @str end
--Ans: 123456789


set @str = 'NEFT 123456789'
select case when len(@str) < @minlen then REPLICATE('0',@minlen-len(@str))+@str else @str end
--Ans: NEFT 123456789