[fpc-pascal] format string - number padding

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 9 12:17:45 CET 2012


Am 09.01.2012 12:08 schrieb "ik" <idokan at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use the Format function to pad a number like so:
> 01
> where the original value is "$1".
>
> I tried to do the following:
>
> writeln(Format('%02X', [$1]));
> writeln(Format('%0:2X', [$1]));
> writeln(Format('%:2X', [$1]));
>
> All of them created the following output:
> " 1"
>
> What am I doing wrong ?

You tried nearly everything except %.2X :)

See also the examples here:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html

Regards,
Sven
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