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Re: Format integer

by Uwe Ligges :: Rate this Message:

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Anh Tran wrote:
> Hi,
> What's one way to convert an integer to a string with preceding 0's?
> such that
> '13' becomes '00000000013'
> to be put into a string
>
> I've tried formatC, but they removes all the zeros and replace it with
> blanks

Not so for me:

formatC(13, digits=10, flag="0")

Uwe LIgges


>
> Thanks
>

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