replicate string should do it
{feild} = 500
replicatestring("0",8-len(
totext(
{feild}
*100,"#")
))
&
totext(
{feild}
*100,"#")
results in 00000500
I added the len function because typically when I need to do what your asking the reult has to be a certain length
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