On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Schoeneman, Carl wrote:
> Is there a way to pad a number with leading zeros with 1 command rather than
> the 2 I used below? It looks like you're supposed to be able to zero-fill
> with sprintf but I couldn't figure it out.
$x = 1234;
printf "%06d\n", $x
prints
001234
--
Change %6s to %06s and it will pad with zeros.
Wags ;)
-Original Message-
From: Schoeneman, Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:40
To: Perl Beginners (E-mail)
Subject: Pad Number with Leading Zeros
Hello.
Is there a way to pad a number with
Hello.
Is there a way to pad a number with leading zeros with 1 command rather than
the 2 I used below? It looks like you're supposed to be able to zero-fill
with sprintf but I couldn't figure it out.
#!/bin/perl -wd
$f = 1234;
$g = sprintf "%6s", $f;
$g =~ s/ /0/g;
