Re: padding in ToString
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg43740] Re: padding in ToString
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:52:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
With[{i = 1},
"data-" <> ToString[PaddedForm[i, 3, NumberPadding -> {"0", "0"}]]
]
Regards
Jens
Konstantin L Kouptsov wrote:
>
> I generate a filename automatically by using
>
> "data-"<>ToString[i]
>
> however I would like it to be zero padded from the left (so all the
> numbers/names have the same length:
>
> data-0000
> data-0001
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Konstantin.