Forced leading padded zeroes?

[Robert E. Carneal]

I am trying to format a result so that it contains leading zeroes, and save that to a text variable. If:

Red = 3122:Kount=0
Unread= Red - Kount
Unread$ = using$("#,###,###",Unread)
Print Unread$;" Not Read"

Acutal Result:
3,122 Not Read

Preferred Result:
0,003,122 Not Read

Short of checking the length of Unread$ and then appending the correct number of zeroes in the front, is there a way to force the zeroes to appear using USING$ ? It shows up as nothing (i.e., correct according to format), which is correct functionally, but I would really appreciate the zeroes being padded in the front.

Thank you.

Robert

[Petr Schreiber jr]

Hi,

did not do much tests, but for this case it worked well:

UnreadText = FORMAT$(Unread, "0,000,000")

I think for 7 and less digit numbers it should work without problem.


Petr

[John Gleason]

We need FORMAT$ here:

Red = 3122:Kount=0
Unread= Red - Kount
'UnreadS = USING$("#,###,###",Unread)
UnreadS = FORMAT$(Unread, "0,000,000")
PRINT UnreadS;" Not Read"

[Michael Mattias]

 
W =  RIGHT$ (STRING$(fieldsize, "0") &  FORMAT$("#,", value), fieldsize)

(It's less tortured with RSET$ but I can't recall if PB/DOS has an RSET$ ..USING function)