Adding zeroes to the beginning of a number

[stuckboy]

Hi,

I'm writing a pathfinding algorithm for my AI that stores the path waypoint coordinates in an alterable string of the enemy. For example, if i had a path given by points [3,4] [4,4] [4,5] the alterable string should read

"000300040004000400040005"

I will then use string functions to traverse the list each time a path node is reached. What I want to know is this; is there any simple way of formatting a string representation of a number to be a certain number of characters long? (i.e. if it is less then leading zeroes will be added).

[James]

(Left$("00000",5-Len(MyString))+MyString)

That will pad the string to 5 digits - to increase or decrease this limit, add or remove zeroes from the string and increase or decrease the 5 constant.

[stuckboy]

Oops, I just literally thought of a solution to this when I clicked the submite version. In any case, this might be helpful to people in future so heres what i did:

Right$("0000"+Str$(<number>), 4)

this adds 4 leading zeroes to the number then deletes some of them again so that the number is only 4 characters long.

[stuckboy]

hehe snap Jamie, cheers!

[Dynasoft]

Yours is shorter