question about find and replace

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> How do you pad out a series of numbers with leading zeros?  Like for instance
> the series is
> 
> .1.
> .2.
> .3.
> .11.
> .42.
> .98.
> 
> and you want them to be
> 
> .001.
> .002.
> .003.
> .011.
> .042.
> .098.

You can use the format function.  For example:

  answer format("%03s",1)

will display 001 (the 3 means pad with zeros to 3 places).  So if the
decimal points in your number series are intentional, you could make a
function like:

 function padNumbers pSeries
    repeat for each line tNum in pSeries
      put "." & format("%03s",char 2 to -2 of tNum) & "." & cr after newSet
    end repeat
   return newSet
 end padNumbers


Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design