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Hi All

Can you please tell me a way in which I can display a number with
leading 0's. The total length of the number will be 5 digits.

Ex: 5 as 00005, 25 as 00025, 125 as 00125 etc.
I have a sequence which goes from 1 to a max of 99999.

I know I can do it like this ..
If (length(number)==1) { "0000"+number}
else if (length(number)==2) { "000"+number}

I am looking for any better solution. I use jdk1.5.0

Thanks

m wrote:
> Can you please tell me a way in which I can display a number with
> leading 0's. The total length of the number will be 5 digits.
>
> Ex: 5 as 00005, 25 as 00025, 125 as 00125 etc.
> I have a sequence which goes from 1 to a max of 99999.
>
> I know I can do it like this ..
> If (length(number)==1) { "0000"+number}
> else if (length(number)==2) { "000"+number}
>
> I am looking for any better solution. I use jdk1.5.0

In Java 1.5 you should look at printf.

Example:

int v = 123;
System.out.printf("%05d", v);

It can also be used in other contexts than
System.out !

Arne

On Nov 9, 3:04 pm, "m" <mod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Can you please tell me a way in which I can display a number with
> leading 0's. The total length of the number will be 5 digits.
>
> Ex: 5 as 00005, 25 as 00025, 125 as 00125 etc.
> I have a sequence which goes from 1 to a max of 99999.
>
> I know I can do it like this ..
> If (length(number)==1) { "0000"+number}
> else if (length(number)==2) { "000"+number}
>
> I am looking for any better solution. I use jdk1.5.0
>
> Thanks

I'd suggest taking a look at String.format
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...va.lang.Object...)

Hmn, that link didn't work so well with the Object... arg at the end.

Probably just better to point you towards
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...Formatter.html

"m" <> writes:

> Hi All
>
> Can you please tell me a way in which I can display a number with
> leading 0's. The total length of the number will be 5 digits.
>
> Ex: 5 as 00005, 25 as 00025, 125 as 00125 etc.
> I have a sequence which goes from 1 to a max of 99999.
>
> I know I can do it like this ..
> If (length(number)==1) { "0000"+number}
> else if (length(number)==2) { "000"+number}
>
> I am looking for any better solution. I use jdk1.5.0
>

Well, if you interpret the number as a String
(e.g., Integer.toString()), and remember that the
String has a length(), you can calculate the number of
leading 0's you need make the total length() == 5.

--
Mark Jeffcoat
Austin, TX

Thanks for this.. Looks great.
int v = 123;
System.out.printf("%05d", v);

can you please tell me how I can use in other context , like if I want
to concat another string to it.
Ex: 00123abcd
How can I add another string which has "abcd" and assign 00123abcd to a
string variable.

solved like this

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;

public class numberfor{

public static void main (String[] args){
int v = 123;
//System.out.printf("%05d", v);
NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("00000");
String s = formatter.format(v);
System.out.println(s);

}

}

m wrote:
> can you please tell me how I can use in other context , like if I want
> to concat another string to it.
> Ex: 00123abcd
> How can I add another string which has "abcd" and assign 00123abcd to a
> string variable.

The following should show some of the possibilities:

import java.io.*;

public class Fmt {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
int v = 123;
System.out.printf("%05d\n", v);
System.out.printf("%05dxyz%s\n", v, ".");
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
pw.printf("%05dxyz%s", v,".");
pw.close();
String s = sw.toString();
System.out.println(s);
PrintWriter pwf = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("C:\\z.txt"));
pwf.printf("%05dxyz%s", v,".");
pwf.close();
String sf = String.format("%05dxyz%s", v,".");
System.out.println(sf);
}
}

Arne

DecimalFormat dfm = new DecimalFormat("00000");
String s1 = dfm.format(number);
String s2 = "abcd" ;
String s3 = s1 + s2 ;
--
http://javalessons.com Paul Hamaker, SEMM
Teaching ICT since 1987

Mark Jeffcoat wrote:
> "m" <> writes:
>>Can you please tell me a way in which I can display a number with
>>leading 0's.
> Well, if you interpret the number as a String
> (e.g., Integer.toString()), and remember that the
> String has a length(), you can calculate the number of
> leading 0's you need make the total length() == 5.

Or let the computer calculate that for you:
String tmp = "0000" + number; // more 00 harmless
return tmp.substring (tmp.length - 5);