Hey Philipp, this is was i need! :)
--- Philipp Traeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2004 15:55, Rod Za wrote:
> Hi Rod,
>
> take a look at the sprintf function ("perldoc -f sprintf") - something like:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> my $shortnumber = '10';
> my $longnumber = '1000';
> print sprintf("shortnumber : %06d\n", $shortnumber);
> might do the trick.
>
> BTW: It's easier to help if you specify what you want to do - in this case it
> didn't matter much, but it can take some time to understand what a piece of
> code should be doing... ;-)
Sorry, i'm not too much clear. What i'm needed is to fill a var (with fix length) with
zeros and
the sprintf works perfectly. Thank you very much
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