Re: Number Padding

Why won't sprintf function for your purposes?

#!/usr/bin/perl

foreach $p ( 2..5 ) {
  print sprintf ("%0${p}d\n", $p);
}
__END__
prints:
02
003
0004
00005
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Re^2: Number Padding by ihb (Deacon) on May 27, 2005 at 18:27 UTC
Don't forget the star syntax: `sprintf '%0d', $len, $value;` [download] `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!*	[reply] [d/l]