Re: Prepending to fixed length

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Tue Jul 18 22:02:02 2006

On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:

> I have an int that I want converted into a string but I want it 
> prefixed
> with zeros to a fixed length. So.
>
> 1 = 00001
> 2 = 00002
>
> 534 = 00534
>
> Basically the opposite of
>
> stringByPaddingToLength:withString:startingAtIndex:
>
> Is there a method to do this directly?


NSString *foo = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%5d", aSignedInt];

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