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Re: Padding numbers [message #42309]

Thu, 03 February 2005 05:50

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Michael Wallace wrote:
> I've got a program which prints out the current time, but when it prints
> out the minutes or seconds, there's no 0 padding if the number is in the
> range 0 - 9.
>
> print, systime(/JULIAN), $
> FORMAT = '(C(CDI, X, CMoA, X, CYI, X, CHI, ":", CMI, ":", CSI))'
> 3 Feb 2005 1:53:47
>
> This looks good, but just wait until those seconds roll over.
>
>
> print, systime(/JULIAN), $
> FORMAT = '(C(CDI, X, CMoA, X, CYI, X, CHI, ":", CMI, ":", CSI))'
> 3 Feb 2005 1:54: 2
>
> Not so good. How do I change the format to fill that empty space with a
> zero? Same goes for minutes when they roll over. Thanks.

IDL> print,systime(/JULIAN), FORMAT = $
IDL> '(C(CDI, X, CMoA, X, CYI, X, CHI2.2, ":", CMI2.2, ":", CSI2.2))'
3 Feb 2005 08:49:40

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		Re: Padding numbers By: James Kuyper on Thu, 03 February 2005 05:50
		Re: Padding numbers By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 03 February 2005 15:19
		Re: Padding numbers By: JD Smith on Mon, 21 February 2005 09:13

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