Numberformat

[william humphrey]

And if you do what I say it stops being a number and becomes a text string?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at rcn.com> wrote:

> At 8:46 PM +0100 8/26/08, David Bovill wrote:
>
>>  >     set the numberformat to "00.######"
>>
>>>     put item 1 of someNum + 0 into padedNum
>>>
>>  >     set the numberformat to "0.######"
>>
>
> I think the problem is that the numberformat only affects how the number
> appears, not what it is. Because you set it back to "0.######", what would
> have been 08 becomes 8. padeNum contains the value of 8, not the string of
> "08".
>
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