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Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]

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• Subject: [mg99747] Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
• From: Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 05:06:50 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <gubgej$9v0$1@smc.vnet.net>

On May 12, 3:44 am, "Lorents" <f... at ff.gr> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using Mathematica 6.
> I'd like to know how to define a file name (to be later used in Export) so
> that the file name contains the value of an index variable i.
> To exemplify, in Fortran this task would be accomplished by something like:
>
> character(len) :: FileName
> ...
> write(FileName,'(A,I4.4)') 'MyName', i
>
> These lines would produce filenames which, for i=1,2,... are MyName0001,
> MyName0002, ...
>
> Is there any neat way of doing the same with Mathematica?
>
> Lorenzo

Wonder how many different solutions this question will generate?

One way is to use IntegerString and StringJoin in something like:

i = 1;
filename = StringJoin["MyName", IntegerString[i, 10, 4]]

HTH...

-Bob