On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:

I'm having an interesting problem... I'm trying to format a number with padding zeros but I can't figure out how to do it in this particular situation.

I know I can use a formatted string with something like [stringWithFormat:@"%03d", 5], which would result in 005 but the problem in this particular case is that the number of padding zeros (3 in my example) is a variable defined by the user... (let's say it resides in an int variable named "int paddingZeros"....)

Is there an easy way I can pad a number with a variable amount of zeros?

I don't remember off-hand if this is supported by NSString, but printf and friends supports ("%0*d", paddingZeros, 5).

That is, put an asterisk in place of the field width and then supply it as an argument.

Cheers,
Ken

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