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Re: [LUG] quick Perl question.

 

> > 1 9 11 42 6 7 85 etc.
> >
> > my question is how do I turn these into 01 09 11 42 06 07 85 etc.
> > Numbers >99 will never occur
>
> sprintf

In fact sprintf("%02d",$number) returns said value of $number. Its
syntax is the same as printf, except that it returns it, rather than
outputs it to the standard output.

See also: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sprintf.html

Martijn.

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