On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Jeffery Fernandez wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having trouble generating a sequence of numbers from the following start
> value:
> AX0001
>
> what I have done so far is loop through each character and check if its a
> alphabet and separating the characters and digits.
>
> But when I increment the digits, its strips of the leading zeros. How can I
> get a sequence of values like:
>
> AX0001
> AX0002
> AX0003
> AX0004
> .....
> AX0099
> AX0100
>
> and so on ?
>
> jeffery
> --


Probably the easiest way is sprintf(); for example,

         sprintf('%04.0d', 34) returns 0034

See

        http://www.php.net/sprintf

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. Steve Edberg                       [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
. Computer Consultant     University of California, Davis .
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