Numberformat

[Mark Smith]

The docs say "It affects numbers only when they are calculated and  
then displayed or used as strings."

I found that if you use <put item 1 of someNum + 0 into word 1 of  
padedNum>

this forces padedNum to be a string, and you get '08'

I've always found the numberFormat thing confusing, so I always use  
'format' in these cases...

Best,

Mark

On 26 Aug 2008, at 20:46, David Bovill wrote:

> I get a "8".
>
> Here I've extracted this function:
>
> function date_PadTwoZeros someNum
>>     set the numberformat to "00.######"
>>     put item 1 of someNum + 0 into padedNum
>>     set the numberformat to "0.######"
>>     return padedNum
>> end date_PadTwoZeros
>>
>> put date_PadTwoZeros("8") --> "8"
>>
>> function date_PadTwoZeros someNum
>>     if the number of chars of someNum = 1 then
>>         return "0" & someNum
>>     else
>>         return someNum
>>     end if
>> end date_PadTwoZeros
>>
>> put date_PadTwoZeros("8") --> "08"
>>
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