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Zero pad (was: getting the date)

At 12:48 -0800 12/30/2003, Walter Ian Kaye wrought:

At 12:36p -0500 12/30/2003, Graff didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

on ZeroPad(theNumber)
set theString to ""
...
You could shorten that to:
...
if theNumber is less than 10 then set theString to "0"
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Let's shorten that up a bit more:

These two have nearly identical speed runs on my machine.

on ZeroPad(theNumber)
if theNumber is less than 10 then set theString to "0" & theNumber
end ZeroPad

on ZeroPad(theNumber)
text 2 thru -1 of ((d + 100) as string)
end ZeroPad


Chris
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 >getting the date (From: Simon Kidd <email@hidden>)
 >Re: getting the date (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: getting the date (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)



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