Need to format a number

I'm working on a web app for a department in my company and
one of the fields is an account number that is stored as a numeric
type in our database. The department who uses it insists that it
should have a leading zero in the number. The account should have a
length of 13 characters padded with leading zero's. All the numbers
in the database are actually 12 in length but since they are a
numeric type in the database, there are no leading zero's.
I've thought that I would convert the number into a string,
find the length of the string, and pad it with leading zero's to
make the string 13 characters in length. I'm hoping there is an
easier way to do this. Any ideas?

Thanks. I found another way. It was one of those "duh"
moments. #NumberFormat(taxid, 0000000000000)#

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