Hi,

I need a help. My reqmt is-
say, i have a numeric string of 6 characters long, ie '123456'.
I would like append the numeric string to make a nine character string by inserting zeroes(0) in the begining of the string..ie '000123456'.
In a nutshell, the input and output examples are given below.

Input Output
'123456' ---------> '000123456'
'1234567' --------> '001234567'
'12345678' --------> '012345678'
'123456789'---------> '123456789'

Thanks for your help..

Regards,
Jern

man sprintf

if i do a printf..
say
echo "'"${count}"'"
rowcount=`printf "%13d" $count`
echo "'"${rowcount}"'"

The output is shown as below:

'25290672'
' 25290672'
I would like zeroes inserted there..
like '025290672'.

Regards,
Jern

I have got the answer with

rowcount=`printf "%09d" $count`
Thanks to you..

Regards,
Jern

In ksh, just define the variable as a left-padded integer:

$ typeset -Z9 myvar
$ myvar=123456
$ print $myvar
000123456