Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
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- Subject: [mg99761] Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 05:09:23 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <gubgej$9v0$1@smc.vnet.net>
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 like: > > character(len) :: FileName > ... > write(FileName,'(A,I4.4)') 'MyName', i > > These lines would produce filenames which, for i=1,2,... are MyName0001, > MyName0002, ... > I'd also like to know if there is a "neat" way to achieve this. The way 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?