[fpc-devel] Format with zero padding

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How can I zero-pad using Format ? In C, using printf it's done using an
> extra 0 digit in for the width: '%04d' with parameter 3 will print
> '0003'. Wouldn't this be useful for FPC's Format as well, or is there
> another way ?

in fpc it's a dot.

Try
%.4d

This is in the docs:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/format.html

Michael.