RE: [DUG]: Formating integer

[Alan Rose]

From Delphi help about format strings

"%" [index ":"] ["-"] [width] ["." prec] type

d       Decimal. The argument must be an integer value. The value is converted to a string of decimal digits. If the format string contains a precision specifier, it indicates that the resulting string must contain at least the specified number of digits; if the value has less digits, the resulting string is left-padded with zeros.

Reads pretty clearly to me. :-)


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, 27 January 2003 6:32 p.m.
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Subject: RE: [DUG]: Formating integer


Thanks folks, both of the suggestions below worked.  Why the . is in front
of the 3 mystifies me - my help says its the other way around, and I never
thought to apply the formatfloat function to an Integer.  So Delphi is
mainly but not all intuitive!

>You need 3 after the decimal point try
>format('%.3d',[TNMBR])

ATNMBR = FormatFloat("000", TNMBR);





John Bird
Beyond Data Systems
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Fax 03-3793340

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