Padded zeros which is removed need to be replaced by spaces

Question

Hi Friends,
My requirement in XI is : Padded zeros which is removed need to be replaced by spaces.
for removing padded zeros I used the UDF:
int i = Integer.parseInt(a);
return (Integer.toString(i));
It is working fine.
Please help as how to go abt in coding : whatever zeros get taken off , need to be replaced with spaces.
Thanks in Advance,
Meghna.

Answer 1

Hi Raj,
According to the logic given by Henrique, its working. But the point to the noted is that :
The number of spaces need to be equal to the number of zeros removed, where it not happening in this case.for the below Ex when applied it returned '  12345' instead of '    12345'.
For ex. source field is '000012345' then the target field need to be '    12345'.
the Type declared in the data type for the receiver field is integer with length 15.
Is it possible to move the field value to the right justified, so the the padded zeros code when applied will automatically load spaces.Becoz the code written for removing zeros contains String due to which it is left justified i think.
The code written for removing zeros is :
int i = Integer.parseInt(a);
return (Integer.toString(i));
please suggest in this regard.
Regards,
Meghna.
Edited by: meghna swaraj on Feb 27, 2008 6:05 PM