Comments on: An AppleScript Function to Zero Pad a Value

By: zero value

zero value — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:18:13 +0000

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By: Ken Clark

Ken Clark — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:25:05 +0000

Thomas–

I never thought about approaching it like that (create a big padded string and then “chop it down” so to speak…), so it took a couple minutes for it to sink into my brain. I get it now. Very cool. Thanks for sharing. –Ken

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:41:38 +0000

Not so classy as yours, but short and functional:

on zero_pad(value, string_length) set tmp_string to “000000000″ & (value as string) set padded_value to characters ((length of tmp_string) – string_length + 1) thru -1 of tmp_string as string return padded_value end zero_pad