Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
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- Subject: [mg99788] Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 01:43:10 -0400 (EDT)
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The extra 0 is because of the position for the invisible plus sign in
positive numbers. Use NumberSigns -> {"", ""} if you want to remove
them.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On May 13, 11:09 am, Szabolcs Horv=E1t <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lorents 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 l=
ike:
>
> > character(len) :: FileName
> > ...
> > write(FileName,'(A,I4.4)') 'MyName', i
>
> > These lines would produce filenames which, for i=1,2,... are MyName00=
01,
> > MyName0002, ...
>
> I'd also like to know if there is a "neat" way to achieve this. The wa=
y
> I've been using was not that pretty ...
>
> makeFileName[i_Integer] :=
> "prefix" <> ToString@PaddedForm[i, 4, NumberPadding -> "0"]
>
> What I hate about this is that it adds an extra zero ... See what
> makeFileName[12345] outputs.
>
> Another way is
>
> makeFileName2[i_] := "prefix" <> ToString /@ IntegerDigits[i, 10, 5]
>
> But do we really need to do so much work---breaking the number into
> digits---for something so simple?