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Re^3: Left padding a number with zeros: PerlFaq method didn't work for me.by ChemBoy (Priest) |
on Jan 17, 2006 at 04:45 UTC ( [id://523665]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You were probably only one character away at one point...unfortunately, then you jumped the wrong direction. :-) The format you were looking for is "%04d", which is equivalent to the version in perlfaq4 if $padlen is equal to 4. Your mistake was that you replaced the string "pad_len" with an integer, rather than replacing the variable $pad_len (which is inserted in the string in the FAQ using braces so that perl knows you're not looking for the variable $pad_lend). Since this means that instead of inserting "4" into your string, you're inserting the value of $4, which happens to be empty, you get no padding, which I presume is the error you saw. If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have given us the railroads. --Michael Flanders
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