in reply to Is There A Better Way?

sprintf is great for formatting numbers.

$input = sprintf("%011d", $input);

That oughtta do the trick.

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Re: Re: Is There A Better Way?
by simeon2000 (Monk) on Aug 13, 2002 at 15:47 UTC
    And since there's more than one way to do it...

    $num = 12;
print 0 x (11 - length($num)), $num;

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      And some more obfuscated ways listed in this thread - Including my own attempt at obscurity ...

      sub a{$_=int$_[0]*10**$_[1]+.5;s;(.{$_[1]})$;\.$1;;chop if substr($_,-
+1)eq'.';return$_};

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      ... Although I would not use it in production code myself :-)

       

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