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 $five = 5;
> my $ten = 10;
>
> $five = sprintf(???, $five);
> $ten = sprintf(???, $ten);
>
> print $five;
> print "\n";
> print $ten;
>
> Should do:
> 005
> 010
>
> Help! I'm stupid today!
>
> TIA
>
> Dan
use %03d for three digits and zero fill. Use a zero as part of the params to
get zero fill, even on text if necessary.
Wags ;)
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