Fun with nummberFormat

[Bob Sneidar]

Hey THAT IS useful! I didn't even know about that one! I will be putting that to good use. 

Bob


On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> 
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> On 15/02/2012, at 09:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> 
>> Yes I know. I was remarking that you can put virtually anything in the numberFormat and it will pad with zero's.
>> 
>> And all that time I've been 'manually' padding my values. No more!
> 
> I've been using the "format" function instead:
> 
>  put format("%04d","13")
>  -->  0013
> 
>  put format("%08d","121")
>  --> 00000121
> 
> That's what I love about LiveCode… you can do the same thing in multiple ways...
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
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