sprintf works like a charm.
I feel rather embarrassed right now. I see that when I do ?format, at the
very end of the documentation, sprintf is suggested as further reading.
muito obrigado
culpritNr1
Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
>
> Try this:
>
> formatC(12, width = 5, flag = "0")
> or
> sprintf("%05d", 12)
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM, culpritNr1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Can anybody point me to a number-to-string formatting function?
>>
>> I need to convert, say, 12 to 00012.
>>
>> I tried format() but its too stubborn: it seems to only pad with spaces.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Your culpritNr1
>>
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