On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:30:36 -0500, Terry Lee Tucker <terry@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:20 am, John Sidney-Woollett saith: > > Not sure if there is a numeric formatting option that allows what you want. > > > > But how about? > > > > substr(to_char(1029, '9,999'),2) > > That's so simple, I'm embarrased ;o) > > Thanks for the help... You can also us 'FM' to get rid of extra space. From the to_char docs: FM suppresses leading zeroes and trailing blanks that would otherwise be added to make the output of a pattern be fixed-width.