Michael, I'm curious: if you pass sprintf() a string, it still pads
with zeros? What's the output of:
sprintf("%05s", "123")
sprintf("%05s", "abc")
On linux, sprintf() pads strings with spaces, as you'd expect. Padding
strings with zeros is... odd.
Sarah
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.0
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:49 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think once upon a time this was found to be OS-dependent since it
> calls the system's C sprintf() -- I get the leading zeros on Mac. I
> presume you're on Windows?
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Hui Du <hui...@dataventures.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> This question sounds very simple but I don't know where I am wrong. I just
>> want to pad leading zeros in some string, for example, "123" becomes
>> "00123". What is wrong if I do following?
>>
>>> sprintf("%05s", "123")
>> [1] " 123"
>>
>>
>> It didn't return "00123", instead it padded with 'blank'.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help in advance.
>>
>> HXD
>>
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