Hello all,
I have a variable named n. n is a number from 0 to 999. I want to print
it with always 3 digits (like 002 instead 2). How do I do it? If I use
printf ("%3d",$n), it uses spaces...

Best regards,
-vcf

In article <424aab9f$0$6570$4d4efb8e [at] read.news.pt.uu.net>, Vitor
Flausino <vflausino [at] dti.pga.aero> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a variable named n. n is a number from 0 to 999. I want to print
> it with always 3 digits (like 002 instead 2). How do I do it? If I use
> printf ("%3d",$n), it uses spaces...

Try printf("%3.3d,$n);


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Vitor Flausino wrote:

> printf ("%3d",$n), it uses spaces...

Sounds like you haven't looked at the first example shown by
perldoc -f sprintf

-Joe

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:07:27 -0800, Jim Gibson
<jgibson [at] mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>In article <424aab9f$0$6570$4d4efb8e [at] read.news.pt.uu.net>, Vitor
>Flausino <vflausino [at] dti.pga.aero> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I have a variable named n. n is a number from 0 to 999. I want to print
>> it with always 3 digits (like 002 instead 2). How do I do it? If I use
>> printf ("%3d",$n), it uses spaces...
>
>Try printf("%3.3d,$n);

or rather
printf("%03d",$n);

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"Vitor Flausino" <vflausino [at] dti.pga.aero> wrote in message
news:424aab9f$0$6570$4d4efb8e [at] read.news.pt.uu.net...
> Hello all,
> I have a variable named n. n is a number from 0 to 999. I want to print it
> with always 3 digits (like 002 instead 2). How do I do it? If I use printf
> ("%3d",$n), it uses spaces...


printf "%03d",$n;