Leading zeros to alphanumeric string

Hello all ,
Does anybody know any function module to put leading zeros to an alphanumeric sequence (18 characters)?
Example : 12wer should be '000000000000012wer'
CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT only works with numbers.
Thanks in advance ,
Snehal

Hi Snehal,
<pre>
shift [field] right deleting trailing ' '.
replace ' ' in [field] with '0'.
</pre>
OK?
Regards,
Clemens

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