"Philip Sheard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> > There are better ways of padding a string
>
> Indeed there are. If the original string was the output from StrIToA, you
> can just add 1000000000 to the input, then skip the first byte, e.g.
>
> Char buf[10];
> Long n = 1234;
> StrIToA(buf, 1000000000 + n);
>
> then use the string starting at buf + 1.
> 1000000000 should be OK for a Long.
>
>
>
Ofcourse this only works when pad character is '0'. Also using StrIToA is
not a CPU efficient way of doing it either since it involves DIV
instructions.
Like I said, a simple for loop will suffice.
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