On Apr 10, Michael Gargiullo said:
>I have a loop that starts at 0 and goes to 99999 and sets the variable $zip
>to the current number
>
>I need it to always be 5 places like a zip code, like so
>
>00000
>00001
>etc...
>
>How can I do that?
Here are two ways:
# makes a VERY LARGE LIST
for $id ('00000' .. '99999') { ... }
# probably faster
for ($id = '00000'; $id ne '100000'; $id++) { ... }
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