Numberformat

David Bovill david at openpartnership.net
Tue Aug 26 16:53:30 EDT 2008


Great!

2008/8/26 Mark Smith <lists at futilism.com>

> David, you need "%02d".
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 26 Aug 2008, at 21:20, David Bovill wrote:
>
>  2008/8/26 Mark Smith <lists at futilism.com>
>>
>>  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...
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi mark -  I'm moving over  a date function to use "format" - but in the
>> docs I could not figure how to make it add trailing zeros? "%2d" did not
>> seem to work:
>>
>>        if extended is true then
>>            -- 1981-04-05T14:30:30-05:00
>>            put "%4s-%2s-%2sT%2s:%2s:%2s-%4s" into baseString
>>        else
>>            -- 19810405T14:30:30-05 00
>>            put "%4s%2s%2sT%2s:%2s:%2s %4s" into baseString
>>        end if
>>
>>        put format(baseString, y, mons, d, h, mins, s, z) into fDate
>>
>>  What should I usee?
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