On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
man printf >>> "A field width or precision may be `*' instead of a digit string. In this case an argument supplies the field width or precision." [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%0*d", 3, 5] -Shawn _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
