On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:48:07 am Stephen Edberg wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Jeffery Fernandez wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am having trouble generating a sequence of numbers from the following
> > start value:
> > AX0001
> >
> > what I have done so far is loop through each character and check if its a
> > alphabet and separating the characters and digits.
> >
> > But when I increment the digits, its strips of the leading zeros. How can
> > I get a sequence of values like:
> >
> > AX0001
> > AX0002
> > AX0003
> > AX0004
> > .....
> > AX0099
> > AX0100
> >
> > and so on ?
> >
> > jeffery
> > --
>
> Probably the easiest way is sprintf(); for example,
>
> sprintf('%04.0d', 34) returns 0034
Thanks mate, that works like a charm. :)
cheers,
Jeffery
>
> See
>
> http://www.php.net/sprintf
>
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> . Computer Consultant University of California, Davis .
> . (530)754-9127 .
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