Mornin' Sooraj,
As is true of most "does this work in Perl" questions, the answer is "Try it" --
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>perl -e
"$version=9;$version=sprintf(\"0%d\",$version); print $version; "
09
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
Enjoy ---
B
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10-08-04 05:39 AM, Sooraj S wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My code is accepting an option "version" as an integer. If it is less
>> than 100, i need to add a zero in front of it so that i can do the
>> further processing.
>>
>> Although this code is working, i am not sure that its the proper way.
>> if ($version< 100)
>> {
>> # convert an integer-variable to string.
>> $version = sprintf("0%d",$version);
>> }
>>
>> I dont want to use something like my $str = sprintf("0%d",$version); I
>> want to have it in the same variable "version".
>>
>>
>
> Try:
>
> $version = sprintf( '%03d', $version );
>
> See `perldoc -f sprinf`
>
>
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