Re: Generating sequence of AlphaNumber

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having trouble generating a sequence of numbers from the following start > value: > AX0001 > > what I have done so far is loop through each character and check if its a > alphabet and separating the characters and digits. > > But when I increment the digits, its strips of the leading zeros. How can I > get a sequence of values like: > > AX0001 > AX0002 > AX0003 > AX0004 > ..... > AX0099 > AX0100 > > and so on ? > > jeffery > -- Probably the easiest way is sprintf(); for example, sprintf('%04.0d', 34) returns 0034 See http://www.php.net/sprintf ........................................................... . Steve Edberg sbedberg@ucdavis.edu . . Computer Consultant University of California, Davis . . (530)754-9127 . ...........................................................