On Sep 9, Errin Larsen said: >However, I need to pass that variable to another system command which >expects any "day" value less than 10 to have a leading zero, so 7th >day of the month should say '07'. How can I check for that leading >zero? If it's missing, I know I could easily: > >$option = "0".$option;
I'd suggest sprintf(): my $two_digit_day = sprintf "%02d", $one_or_two_digit_day; To remove them, simply do: $date =~ s/^0+//; That will remove all leading zeroes from a string. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
