[kw-pm] sprintf Issue

[Justin Wheeler]

d means signed decimal integer.  signed decimal only goes up to 4294967295.

You'd probably do best just to use it as a string at that length:

printf("Formatted: %020s", $processId);

Justin


On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Robert Pike wrote:

> Is there a limitation on trying to format numbers using sprintf? I'm trying to format a number like 10005000035, so as to have leading zeros up to a total length of 20 such as this :
>
> print "Formatted : " . sprintf("%020d", $processId);  # processId is equal to 10005000035
>
> Is there a problem with this approach or a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance for any feedback.
>
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