I'm not looking for simple template literals, more so the functionalities of String.format from java.
For example,
String.format("%05d",num);
if inputted 14, would output 00014. How could I do this in javascript?
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Can you explain the logic you're looking for? How does `%05d` turn into `00014` in Java? – CertainPerformance May 09 '19 at 23:25
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@CertainPerformance Go read up on `String.format`. It's a lot like C's `printf`. – John Kugelman May 09 '19 at 23:27
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@CertainPerformance this means that we want to pad left the number with zeros so that the number takes 5 characters. Here the number 14 is taking 2 characters, using `%05d` means we want to add three zeros to the left so that the result is five digits (00014). – Anis R. May 09 '19 at 23:29
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2`String(num).padStart(5, '0')` – CertainPerformance May 09 '19 at 23:30
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Are you just looking for zero-padding, or do you want more functionality than that? – John Kugelman May 09 '19 at 23:32
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If all you need is padding left, you can check out [padStart()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/padStart) – Anis R. May 09 '19 at 23:34
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1the duplicate answered my question, thanks – Caleb Hu May 09 '19 at 23:35