infopath strips leading zeros from input

[Will]

I have a text box bound to a string. When I input numbers with leading
zeros into the box, infopath strips away the zeros. Is there a way to
stop this from happening so that I can store strings like "01" and
"001"?

Thanks

 

[Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]]

You likely have your field datatype as a whole number. If you set the datatype to text, then it will store the zeros.

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I have a text box bound to a string. When I input numbers with leading
zeros into the box, infopath strips away the zeros. Is there a way to
stop this from happening so that I can store strings like "01" and
"001"?

Thanks

 

[Will]

Thanks for the response Greg.

My form is actually based on an external schema. The test box was
originally bound to a number, but I changed it to a string in the
schema. After converting the data source, it seems some of the
number-related formatting was still left in the infopath xsl. I
deleted the text box and created a new one which fixed the problem.

Thanks again.