Display number with padded zeros

[golfjrr]

I know this should be simple but alas..

I have a field of say minutes that is 5 but want to force it to be displayed in a string like 03:05:44 with the padded zeros. Now it is showing like 3:5:44.

How do I do that in autoit? I basicall have separate fields for hours, minutes and seconds, and concat them together hh:mi:ss but of course don't get the leading zeros.

The stringformat command has gotta be the most counterintuative/confusing way to format things I have ever seen in my 30+ years of programming..

[Josbe]

An easy alternative:

If your string it's joined by 3 variables, you could apply a If.

Example:

$var= 10
If $var < 10 Then $var= '0' & $var
Msgbox(0, "", $var)

Edited November 5, 2004 by josbe

[Jos]

StringFormat("%02i:%02i:%02i", $Hour, $Mins, $Secs)

Edited November 5, 2004 by JdeB

[golfjrr]

StringFormat("%02i:%02i:%02i", $Hour, $Mins, $Secs)

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Thank you. I knew it should be simple. I'm not a c programmer and I guess that function/format is taken more from a c function thus it was greek to me. To a c programmer no doubt trival

[Josbe]

StringFormat("%02i:%02i:%02i", $Hour, $Mins, $Secs)

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Very well, teacher...

[Jon]

Or you could add a zero to the start regardless of the number and then just do stringright

$var = 1
$var = StringRight("0" & $var, 2)
MsgBox(0, "", $var)

[Josbe]

Or you could add a zero to the start regardless of the number and then just do stringright

$var = 1
$var = StringRight("0" & $var, 2)
MsgBox(0, "", $var)

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Ingenious.

[ezzetabi]

Even an other idea...

$digits = 3;the number of max digits
while stringlen($var) < $digits
   $var = '0' & $var
wend