Hi Bill,

> Oh,  And how do I add leading zeroes to a number?  

Try <@PAD>

Hope this helps.

Scott,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William M Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:18 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: <@TIMETOSECS> Behavior change request
> 
> Oh,  And how do I add leading zeroes to a number?  I can't find the
> format attribute that does this.  I guess I could output it using
> format=datetime:%H
> 
> Kind of counter-intuitive to use datetime to get an integer. Also, I
> can't get an arbitrary number of leading zeroes, though it will work
> for this case.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:12 PM, William M Conlon wrote:
> 
> > I'm writing a method to patch this, since one can't know a priori
> > whether there is a leading hour, if that hour is one or two digits,
> > of if there is no leading hour, whether the minutes are one or two
> > digits.
> >
> > This is ideally suited to a RegEx, but Witango only supplies an
> > interface to the Posix matching routines, but here we want to
> > modify text.  So instead I have to build logic to parse the
> > possibilities.
> >
> > How did leading hours get overlooked for so many years?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Ben Johansen wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah,
> >> this is the only way i see around it
> >>
> >> <@TIMETOSECS TIME="<@FORMAT STR="27:30" INFORMAT='datetime:%M:%S'
> >> FORMAT='datetime:00:%M:%S'>"><br>
> >>
> >> Ben
> >>
> >> On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:09 AM, William M Conlon wrote:
> >>
> >> <TIMETOSECS TIME="27:30"> results in InvalidTime! because it is
> >> expecting three numbers, separated by colons, such as 00:27:30.
> >>
> >> I would perfer time to be treated just like any other number,
> >> where leading zeroes are assumed.
> >>
> >>
> >> Bill
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