Please do reply to the list -- I'm not on Windows so someone else will
have to pick the question up to help you out.
It's not great, but you could do something like
zeroPad <- function(str, len.out, num.zeros = len.out[1] - nchar(str)){
paste0(paste(rep("0", num.zeros), collapse = ""), str)
}
as a temporary work-around. Probably possible to vectorize that pretty
easily as well.
Best,
Michael
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Hui Du <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for your replay. Yes, I am on windows.
>
> Best Regards,
> Hui Du
>
> Data Ventures Inc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Michael Weylandt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:49 AM
> To: Hui Du
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [R] pad leading zeros in front of strings
>
> I think once upon a time this was found to be OS-dependent since it
> calls the system's C sprintf() -- I get the leading zeros on Mac. I
> presume you're on Windows?
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Hui Du <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> This question sounds very simple but I don't know where I am wrong. I just
>> want to pad leading zeros in some string, for example, "123" becomes
>> "00123". What is wrong if I do following?
>>
>>> sprintf("%05s", "123")
>> [1] " 123"
>>
>>
>> It didn't return "00123", instead it padded with 'blank'.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help in advance.
>>
>> HXD
>>
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