Anh Tran wrote:
Hi,
What's one way to convert an integer to a string with preceding 0's?
such that
'13' becomes '00000000013'
to be put into a string

I've tried formatC, but they removes all the zeros and replace it with
blanks

Hi,

try sprintf:

>i=13
> cat(sprintf("%05d\n", i))
00013
>

HTH,

Esmail

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