PAD Function In Data Tranformation Editor

I have a value with a float datatype in Excel that is actually a date. For example, the value displays 1272006 for January 27, 2006. I am trying to convert this value to a date. I can do this in several stages using T-SQL by converting the datatype to integer, using replicate to make it eight characters and than using substrings to make it look like 01-27-2006 which SQL Server will recognize as a date.

My problem is that there is nothing similar to a PAD (replicate) function using the Data Tranformation Editor in Integration Services. There is a replicate function but it merely functions to repeat a value. It doesn't appear to perform the same PAD function as the T-SQL replicate does. Here is my formula in T-SQL that works okay.

right(replicate('0', 8) + convert(varchar, cast([Date] as varchar)), 8)

I could do this by creating a staging table but I want to handle the entire transformation process within Integration Services. Can anyone offer me some advice? Thank you.



David