"Chas Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sprintf is definitly the correct answer, but just to prove TIMTOWTDI > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > > print zeropad(5,100), "\n"; > > sub zeropad { > my ($count, $n) = @_; > return substr '0' x $count . $n, -$count; > }
I probably wasn't clear enough in my request... This ouputs: ./test.pl 00100 I'm after: 001 thru 999 and then 1000 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>