[kw-pm] sprintf Issue

[Justin Wheeler]

Erm.. SIGNED.  And it goes up to half that. ;)

Justin


On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Justin Wheeler wrote:

> 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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