Formatting a string with leading zeroes.

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26 Jan 2006 4:04 AM

Andrew Chalk

If I have a number representing a number of minutes and I want to format it
as a string with two characters, with a leading 0 if the value is less than
10, how do I do that?

Many thanks.

26 Jan 2006 6:32 AM

Mattias Sjögren

Andrew,

>If I have a number representing a number of minutes and I want to format it
>as a string with two characters, with a leading 0 if the value is less than
>10, how do I do that?

number.ToString("00")

Mattias

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27 Jan 2006 4:36 AM

Syed Abbas Naqvi

Try this out.
strNumber = Format(yourNumber,"00")

27 Jan 2006 6:27 PM

Andrew Chalk

Thanks, to Mattias as well. I will try that.

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> Try this out.
> strNumber = Format(yourNumber,"00")
>