in reply to Re: Re: Zero Padding
in thread Zero Padding

try this
$foo = 0000
$foo .= $number

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(yakko) Re: Zero Padding
by yakko (Friar) on Feb 03, 2001 at 10:27 UTC
    In the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, I offer my version from my FPBASIC days: 
    my $num=42;
my $padto="000000"; # padding to 6digs

$num=$padto.$num;

print substr($num,-6), "\n";

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    Not the shortest, but a valid solution. Of course, I'd use printf() as mentioned zillions of times.

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