Thanks a lot Jose and Ramprasad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------
regards, Ajitpal Singh, Wipro Technologies. Finchley,London. Tel:044 208 495 6317 Mobile:07900534143 -----Original Message----- From: Jose Alves de Castro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2004 12:21 To: Singh, Ajit p Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: regular expr. On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:16, Singh, Ajit p wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My problem is that I have a define a variable which combines two other > variables with preceeding zeroes. > > i.e final_variable : <3 digit var1><5 digit var2> > > if var1 is single digit i have to preceed it with two zeroes. eg : 002 > if var1 is double digit i have to preceed it with one zero. eg : 022 > > Similarly, > for var2 is single digit i need to preceed with four zeroes .eg :00005 > for var2 is double digit i need to preceed with three zeroes .eg :00054 > for var2 is a three digit number i need to preceed with two zeroes .eg > :00542 > and so on.. This should do the trick: $var = sprintf("%03i%05i",$var1,$var2); > can someone pls help me out on the above... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > > regards, > > Ajitpal Singh, HTH, jac -- Josà Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Telbit - Tecnologias de InformaÃÃo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
