From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2007-06-01T01:13:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Number formatting

On 5/31/07, Cory <coryw@americanmonkey.com> wrote:
> folks - can't quite figure this one out...
>
> foo = 5
> bar = 10
>
> basically - when i go to print out the numbers - i want to format 'foo'
> with a leding zero so that it reads '05' and is aesthetically pleasing
> when compared to a double-digit number - such as bar: '10'.

  Try using Kernel#printf.

irb(main):001:0> printf("%02d", 5)
05=> nil


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