Spoke to soon try put "0" & "8" + 2
and this works with the padded zero like you want. Much simpler than hard to understand add zero thing. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:55 PM, william humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > And if you do what I say it stops being a number and becomes a text string? > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Colin Holgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At 8:46 PM +0100 8/26/08, David Bovill wrote: >> >>> > set the numberformat to "00.######" >>> >>>> put item 1 of someNum + 0 into padedNum >>>> >>> > set the numberformat to "0.######" >>> >> >> I think the problem is that the numberformat only affects how the number >> appears, not what it is. Because you set it back to "0.######", what would >> have been 08 becomes 8. padeNum contains the value of 8, not the string of >> "08". >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > > > -- > http://www.bluewatermaritime.com > -- http://www.bluewatermaritime.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
