RE: right padding with zeros

format-number does what it says - it formats a number, it doesn't multiply
it by 100 or 1000.

Try substring(concat($num, '00000'), 1, 5)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bhaskar, Rajan [mailto:RBhaskar@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 March 2005 22:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  right padding with zeros
> 
> Hi,
>  How can i right pad a string with zeroes
> 
> if a value of 5 digits obtained is 234 it has to be 23400 and 
> not 00234. Is it possible in format-number.?
> I tried but getting only right padded