From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T12:33:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple string operation

On 7/9/07, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
> seqNo =
> File.basename("/Volumes/MINOLTA1/DCIM/100MLT16/PICT0004.MOV",".*")[-1,3].to_s
> seqNo = "-" + seqNo+ ".xx.m"
> puts "seqNo: #{seqNo} " # >> seqNo: -4.xx.m
>
> but I want it to be -004.xx.m. In other words I want the leading zeros.

Maybe you want [-3,3] instead of [-1,3]?

Todd