On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:00:40AM -0500, Arante, Susan wrote:
: Could someone tell me why this is happening? When I use this command, it
: used to give me 20010405.doc (yyyymmdd.doc), now it's giving me 2001 4 5.doc
: - I'm losing the leading zeros.
: Command is on Perl 5 - printf("\%s%02s%02s.doc",$year,$month,$day).
Try this:
printf( "%04d%02d%02d", $year, $month, $day );
for printf(), %d is used for integers and integers will be right
padded with zeros, like you want.
See:
perldoc -f printf
Enjoy!
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Casey West
