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Re: Is There A Better Way?

by Shendal (Hermit)
on Aug 13, 2002 at 15:12 UTC ( [id://189820]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Is There A Better Way?

What you're looking for is sprintf. For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "Enter ID Number: "; chomp(my $input = <STDIN>); die "Not a number!" if ($input =~ /\D/); $input = sprintf("%011d",$input); print "input: $input\n";


Cheers,
Shendal

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