From: ideal one <idealone5@...>
Date: 2011-10-15T04:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby functions to split numbers

Jeremy Bopp wrote in post #1026670:
> On 10/14/2011 13:52, ideal one wrote:
>> Var2 = 02305    # split remaining digits with preserving leading Zero if
>> it exists
>>
>> i tried doing something like this, not sure if its correct
>>
>>  sprintf("%2d", number)
>>
>> I am not able to preserve leading zero or i get fixnum to string error
>
> How do you want to work with your numbers within your program?  Do you
> want them to be real numbers or strings?  As numbers, you would need to
> tell sprintf how large the resulting string should be and with what to
> pad the string in case the number is too short to fill the field.
>
> It's a bit long, but the documentation for sprintf should help you with
> the details.  Come back if you have a specific question about sprintf
> itself:
>
> http://rdoc.info/stdlib/core/1.9.2/Kernel:sprintf
>
> Check out what this does:
>
> sprintf("%010d", 1234567)
>
> If you want to work with the numbers as strings in your program, you
> don't need to use the sprintf method at all since they will already be
> strings with the necessary padding, assuming Number (from your example)
> is sufficiently padded and your splitting process avoids dropping
> anything.
>
> -Jeremy

Thanks, I do not need to be number to be string, i was only trying to 
preserve the leading Zero as ruby would treat it as octal.
Let me try examples mentioned here, it should help me!!

Cheers

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