Hi, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:17:29 PM, you wrote: > I have a integer that is submitted by the user and i need it to always > contain 5 digits. > If the user submitted 45, i need it to be 00045. > If the user submitted 4595, i need it to be 04595. > How can i do this? Given PHPs type switching abilities, this would work: http://uk2.php.net/str_pad but this would be more elegant: http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php