Complete noob question here:
How do I print:
v = 3
as
“03”
without manually checking the length of the string and adding 0s to match.
I’m digging through the formattedprint function which on paper seems to be exactly what I want but I can’t get it to print 0s instead of spaces.
v = 3
print (substring ((v+100)as string) 2 2)
Since there is no way to store leading 0’s in a value you add 100 to it (103), convert to string (“103”), then use substring to extract the numbers you need (“03”).
-Eric
Haha! Neat!
Formattedprint I can get to print:
” 3″
or
” 3″
I suppose the other option would be to use that and then replace ” ” with “0”.
doesn’t this work?
formattedPrint 3 format:".2d"
where the 2 is the total number of digits required, including leading zeros
Aha! Thank you! There’s the magic format string.
Nice drdubosc.
-Eric
…by the time you’ve unscrambled the docs in that little section, it does seem like magic. IMHO, the format string bit could do with a rewrite.