Questions tagged [zero-pad]
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How can I pad an integer with zeros on the left?
How do you left pad an int with zeros when converting to a String in java?
I'm basically looking to pad out integers up to 9999 with leading zeros (e.g. 1 = 0001).

Omar Kooheji
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Python datetime formatting without zero-padding
Is there a format for printing Python datetimes that won't use zero-padding on dates and times?
Format I'm using now:
mydatetime.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %I:%M%p')
Result: 02/29/2012 05:03PM
Desired: 2/29/2012 5:03PM
What format would represent the month…

Yarin
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Zero pad numpy array
What's the more pythonic way to pad an array with zeros at the end?
def pad(A, length):
...
A = np.array([1,2,3,4,5])
pad(A, 8) # expected : [1,2,3,4,5,0,0,0]
In my real use case, in fact I want to pad an array to the closest multiple of…

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How can I count the digits in an integer without a string cast?
I fear there's a simple and obvious answer to this question. I need to determine how many digits wide a count of items is, so that I can pad each item number with the minimum number of leading zeros required to maintain alignment. For example, I…

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How to zero-pad numeric variables in zsh (and maybe also bash?)
In zsh, when I have to create a bunch of files with zsh, I usually do something like:
for x in $(seq 1 1000); do .....; done
This works fine, it gives me files with names foo-1.txt .. foo-1000.txt.
However, these files do not sort nicely, so I…

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Formatting a date in R without leading zeros
Is there a way to use the format function on a date object, specifically an object of class POSIXlt, POSIXct, or Date, with the format %Y, %m, %d such that leading zeros are stripped from each of those 3 fields?
For example, I would like…

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Java convert any integer to 4 digits
This seems like an easy question. One of my assignments basically sends a time in military format (like 1200, 2200, etc) to my class.
How can I force the integer to be converted to 4 digits when it's received by my class? For example if the time…

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C# Padding Amount With Zeros
I have an amount field which is a decimal in the database.
I need to always display this amount with 10 numbers on the left of the decimal and two after.
Example:
Amount = 245.00 which should display as 0000000245.00
Additionally, the amount could…

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In PHP, how do I add to a zero-padded numeric string and preserve the zero padding?
If I have a variable in PHP containing 0001 and I add 1 to it, the result is 2 instead of 0002.
How do I solve this problem?

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NSDateFormatter setDateFormat non-zero-padded month number
Is it possible to get the non-zero-padded month number using setDateFormat?
If not, could you provide an alternative solution?

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Simple and elegant way to zero-pad a value in C#
I have to fix malformed zipcodes. The people who exported the data treated the zipcode as a numeric and as a result New Jersey and Puerto Rico zipcodes, which begin with a leading zero and two leading zeroes respectively, have been truncated.…

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How to remove the boundary effects arising due to zero padding in scipy/numpy fft?
I have made a python code to smoothen a given signal using the Weierstrass transform, which is basically the convolution of a normalised gaussian with a signal.
The code is as follows:
#Importing relevant libraries
from __future__ import…

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How to use boost::format to zeropad a number where the number of decimal places is contained in a variable?
I would like to zeropad a number such that it has 5 digits and get it as a string. This can be done with the following:
unsigned int theNumber = 10;
std::string theZeropaddedString = (boost::format("%05u") % theNumber).str();
However, I do not…

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Is it possible to pad leading zeros with a space instead of a zero in C?
Wondering if I did something like
printf("%04.2f", float_variable);
Could I have it print
" 1.15"
Instead of
"01.15"
Weird request I know, but it is what I need. No idea how to start.

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Zero-padding a spinner in Java
How do you add zero padding to a JSpinner?
Since the spinner creates the JFormattedTextField itself, I can't just pass the format into the JFormattedTextField constructor.
Isn't there a way to set the formatting on an existing…

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