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Re: numbers and prefix zero

Subject: Re: numbers and prefix zero
From: kai <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:20:55 +0000

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:36:54 +0100, Christian Vinaa <email@hidden> wrote:

so the short version is:

set a to 10
set b to (text -2 thru -1 of ("00" & (a + 1)))

For a slightly shorter 2-digit version, you might try losing a "0" - and maybe even a couple of parentheses:

set b to text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & a + 1)

Alternatively, it can sometimes be a bit faster to calculate, rather than to concatenate:

set b to text -2 thru -1 of (100 + a + 1 as string)

Of course, to deal with negative 2-digit values, you'll need to do a bit more than that. But, hey - if there's a snow blizzard outside anyway... ;-)

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kai

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