John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Romilla, you wrote :
>>Could anyone help me with a fairly simple request plse?
>>I need to rename a file in MPE to filemmdd where mm is taken from HPMONTH
>>and dd is taken from HPDATE.
>>I need to right justify and zerofill the value so I want dd=06 not 6.
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>I suggest : setvar myday rht("00" + "!hpdate",2)
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That would be my choice too, but to answer the original question more precisely
try:
 
setvar xname, "file"+rht(("00"+"!hpmonth"),2)+rht(("00"+"!hpdate"),2)
rename file,!xname
 
Martin.
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