R help - Oct 2008 - Paddding an integer with zeros

Hello List,

Can anybody point me to a number-to-string formatting function?

I need to convert, say, 12 to 00012.

I tried format() but its too stubborn: it seems to only pad with spaces.

Thank you,

Your culpritNr1


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Try this:

formatC(12, width = 5, flag = "0")
or
sprintf("%05d", 12)

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM, culpritNr1 <ig2ar-saf1@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> Can anybody point me to a number-to-string formatting function?
>
> I need to convert, say, 12 to 00012.
>
> I tried format() but its too stubborn: it seems to only pad with spaces.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Your culpritNr1
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
>
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