You could use the jakarta commons library. The actual file is: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils. It has various padding methods. Just pass the StringUtils into velocity context.
Cheers, Jian On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:21:07 -0800 (PST), Gagan 007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to show some file in this format > > S# Value > > 0001 abc > 0002 adc > 0003 afc > 0004 sbc > 0005 fbc > 0006 abh > 0007 afc > 0008 sbc > 0009 fbc > 0010 hbc > 0011 alc > 0012 a;c > 0013 a'b > 0014 ab[ > 0015 ayc > 0016 a5c > 0017 ab4 > 0018 a3c > and so on > > 0100 abc > > I have all the values in the collection and i m iterating through it... > Plus i need to show the S#... which gets incremented with each value...as > shown above... > > The size of the sequence no.. is 4 digits.. if there are not 4 digits then > the s# is left padded with 0 > u can c the example above... > > Is there any feature in Velocity to generate this S# while i m iterating > through the values... > > Its urgent any help would be appreciated.. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]