substr and zeros

[acidbox]

I havea string that has a lot of zeros in it, and when I use the substr, it drops the zeros right off the string when i use substr.

For instance, I have the following string.

$string = 200208000001

I do the following Command:

substr($string, 6, 6)

It returns, the number 1.

I need it to return 000001.

Anyone have any input on how to get PHP to NOT drop the zeros?

[Anon]

I'm getting 000001 as expected on my box (PHP 4.2.1 / Apache / FreeBSD).