How to add zeros in front of a text field in an access table

Question

I have an access table with a text field. It has alpha numeric values. But i want all values to be minimum 3 digit. so i want to add zeroes in front of all single or two digit values

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5  must become 005
89 must become 089

how do i write a query to update all values in the table.

thanks tksy

Answer 1

The key is to add as many zeros as needed to take the length up to 3.

UPDATE yourTable
SET YourField = LEFT("00", 3-LEN(YourField)) + YourField
WHERE LEN(YourField)<3 AND Len(YourField)>0