Thanks for the quick replies guys:
sprintf "%03d", $num
Did the trick, I need to study that a bit more to I think.
Thanks
Dan
> Howdy all,
>
> I know I'm being a puts but I can't for the life of me get
> sprintf to do my bidding.
>
> What I'm tryng to do is take a number, say 5 or 10 and make
Dan Muey wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I know I'm being a puts but I can't for the life of me get sprintf to
> do my bidding.
>
> What I'm tryng to do is take a number, say 5 or 10 and make them
> three digits long with Zeros on the left:
>
> IE
> 5 would become 005
> And 10 would become 010
>
> my
Howdy all,
I know I'm being a puts but I can't for the life of me get sprintf to do my bidding.
What I'm tryng to do is take a number, say 5 or 10 and make them three digits long
with
Zeros on the left:
IE
5 would become 005
And 10 would become 010
my $five = 5;
my $ten = 10;
$five = spri
