Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg99792] Re: Question about filenames for Export[...]
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 02:04:54 -0400 (EDT)
On 5/13/09 at 5:09 AM, szhorvat at gmail.com (Szabolcs Horv=C3=A1t) wrote: >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"] I typically use NumberForm rather than PaddedForm. But I don't think this difference would meet your criteria for "neat" >What I hate about this is that it adds an extra zero ... See what >makeFileName[12345] outputs. There is an "extra" space associated with positive numbers which is replace by zero. Since this always happens for positive numbers, there is a simple way to get rid of the extra zero. Changing your function above to: makeFileName[i_Integer] := "prefix" <> StringDrop[ToString@PaddedForm[i, 4, NumberPadding -> "0"],1] or makeFileName[i_Integer] := "prefix" <> StringTake[ToString@PaddedForm[i, 4, NumberPadding -> "0"],-4] will get rid of the extra zero.