in reply to zero padding

When you concat, you need to

$var1.sprintf( "%04d", $var2 );

or

$var1.("0" x (4-length( $var2 ))).$var2

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Re^2: zero padding
by trammell (Priest) on Feb 09, 2005 at 20:04 UTC
    Dang, did you travel back in time from after Perl 6 was released?
      ???

      Update: Please explain - those work just fine on my 5.8.0 - am I missing something? (obviously!)