How can we do put a number to 3number

popinet21

How we can transform 3 into 003
12 into 012....

pianofire

I haven't tested it but try something like this:

function zeroPadInt(integer, padLen)
  result = str(integer)
  while len(result) < padLen loop
    result = "0" + result
  repeat
return result

Then you can do:
print(zeroPadInt(3, 3))

Richard

I don't know of a built in function, but you could make one along the lines of:

function longNumber(number,digits)
    text = str(number)
    while len (text) < digits loop
        text = "0"+text
    repeat
return text

pianofire

@Richard Great minds think alike!

Richard

@pianofire if only I could type faster.

popinet21

Thank you so much,
I'm still not comfortable with the functions, I will try to understand them and I will put them in my program

popinet21

I understand your functiont, they are the same

popinet21

For my project digits or padlen must be equal to 3

pianofire

@popinet21

So you could just have a function:

function zeroPadInt(integer)
  result = str(integer)
  while len(result) < 3 loop
    result = "0" + result
  repeat
return result

But in another project you may need a different length so the first version has more reuse value

Discostew

One thing that Petit Computer did was allow multiplying of strings. For instance...

myvar = "01" * 4

This would result in "01010101". Would be nice if that sort of feature were added.

tony7059

Though Petit Computer may provide this feature, I don't believe I've seen this feature in any other languages. It's really just as easy for you to write a simple function that does the same thing.

function appendCopy( str, times)
    String appendCopy = str
    for i = 0 to times loop
        appendCopy = appendCopy + str
    repeat
return appendCopy

String newString = appendCopy("01", 4)

BTW, I've not tried appendCopy += str which might also work. But, even if I got something not quite right, you get the idea.

pianofire

TIP: if you put 3 back ticks ``` around a block of code it will format it:

tony7059

@pianofire, Thanks! I also see now that there is a "code" option in the above content choices... dah! : )