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How to zero-pad a number?

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  • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

    PIEBALDconsult wrote:

    Yes, and are they?

    Yes, the first operand is a string. It's the result of the ternary operator:

    fileCount <= 999
    ? fileCount <= 99
    ? fileCount <= 9
    ? "000"
    : "00"
    : "0"
    : ""


    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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    PIEBALDconsult
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    And the second?

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      It's so good to know that the hard work of the developers of String.PadLeft[^] and Int32.ToString[^] is providing so much joy to so many, other than you. By the way, what language is that? It can't be C#, or did you also override the + operator? :omg:

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      SortaCore
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      I think I wrote it in one of those points in the week where I just couldn't think. X| Methinks I'll replace it tomorrow.

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        And the second?

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        PIEBALDconsult wrote:

        And the second?

        Doesn't matter. The documentation clearly states, "When one or both operands are of type string...", so the type of the other operand is irrelevant.


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        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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        • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

          PIEBALDconsult wrote:

          And the second?

          Doesn't matter. The documentation clearly states, "When one or both operands are of type string...", so the type of the other operand is irrelevant.


          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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          Big Daddy Farang
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          I missed that the first time also. :)

          BDF The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer. -- PaulowniaK

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          • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

            PIEBALDconsult wrote:

            And the second?

            Doesn't matter. The documentation clearly states, "When one or both operands are of type string...", so the type of the other operand is irrelevant.


            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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            Where do you see that in the documentation? I don't even see + in the documentation. And what idiot thought that was a good idea? :wtf: Time to find a new language; this one's becoming VB. X| Edit: I finally found it; it's not documented with String; what a POS. :thumbsdown: I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

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              Where do you see that in the documentation? I don't even see + in the documentation. And what idiot thought that was a good idea? :wtf: Time to find a new language; this one's becoming VB. X| Edit: I finally found it; it's not documented with String; what a POS. :thumbsdown: I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

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              It's the link that I posted in my previous message: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/k1a63xkz.aspx[^]


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              "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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              • P PIEBALDconsult

                Where do you see that in the documentation? I don't even see + in the documentation. And what idiot thought that was a good idea? :wtf: Time to find a new language; this one's becoming VB. X| Edit: I finally found it; it's not documented with String; what a POS. :thumbsdown: I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

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                SortaCore
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                PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

                Heh, I go for the shorter version. If it doesn't make sense with a mishmash of ints/strings I use brackets or ToString(). Like for:

                int i = 124, j = 253;
                string s = "JD" + i + j; // Could be two things and no one wants to look up operator precedence, so instead...
                string t = "JD" + (i + j);

                But yeah, usually I don't bother. Although, theoretically, I could now do

                string s = 0; // won't initialise
                string t = "" + 0; // will work fine O.o

                So, let's get back to self-respecting... :rolleyes:

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                  Where do you see that in the documentation? I don't even see + in the documentation. And what idiot thought that was a good idea? :wtf: Time to find a new language; this one's becoming VB. X| Edit: I finally found it; it's not documented with String; what a POS. :thumbsdown: I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

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                  SortaCore
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                  PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                  I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

                  Heh, I go for the shorter version. If it doesn't make sense with a mishmash of ints/strings I use brackets or ToString() to clarify.

                  int i = 124, j = 253;
                  string s = "JD" + i + j; // Could be two things and no one wants to look up operator precedence, so instead...
                  string t = "JD" + (i + j);

                  But yeah, usually I don't bother. Although, theoretically, I could now do

                  string s = 0; // won't initialise
                  string t = "" + 0; // will work fine O.o

                  So, let's get back to self-respecting... :rolleyes:

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                    PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                    I'm fairly sure that no self-respecting C# professional uses it that way.

                    Heh, I go for the shorter version. If it doesn't make sense with a mishmash of ints/strings I use brackets or ToString() to clarify.

                    int i = 124, j = 253;
                    string s = "JD" + i + j; // Could be two things and no one wants to look up operator precedence, so instead...
                    string t = "JD" + (i + j);

                    But yeah, usually I don't bother. Although, theoretically, I could now do

                    string s = 0; // won't initialise
                    string t = "" + 0; // will work fine O.o

                    So, let's get back to self-respecting... :rolleyes:

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                    string t = System.String.Format ( "JD{0}" , i + j ) ;

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                      string t = System.String.Format ( "JD{0}" , i + j ) ;

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                      Make that:

                      string t = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "JD{0:D}", i + j);

                      You typically don't want culture-specific formatting or group separators in the result.


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                      • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                        Make that:

                        string t = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "JD{0:D}", i + j);

                        You typically don't want culture-specific formatting or group separators in the result.


                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        I've never had that problem.

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                        • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                          Make that:

                          string t = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "JD{0:D}", i + j);

                          You typically don't want culture-specific formatting or group separators in the result.


                          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                          And of course don't forget to set the string to "" at the end, else if the garbage collector is a little slow you might run out of memory! Better yet, just keep re-using global strings.

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                            A padded number in a file name!

                            // Set to padded number
                            int fileCount = Directory.GetFiles("[censored]", "*.csv", SearchOption.AllDirectories).Length + 1;
                            string fileCountStr = (fileCount <= 999 ? fileCount <= 99 ? fileCount <= 9 ? "000" : "00" : "0" : "") + fileCount;

                            I think this should win an award for readability in a triply-nested ternary condition :rolleyes:.

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                            Wonderful code! When I was new to programming I used to do something like this too. Then I figured out a trick: just add 1.000.000.000 to the number and take the last 4 characters. Now I just use PadLeft, PadRight or Format

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