[erlang-questions] integer-string conversions.

[Mihai Balea]

On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Peter W. Morreale wrote:

> 
> I bet this has come up a lot, however I can't find anything on the web
> that is appropriate...   (Nor am I seeing it in the erlang doc...)
> 
> Need to convert an integer to a string, with a field width and
> precision, such that:
> 
>  2 --> "02" 
> 
> ie: right-justified and padded with a leading zeros, depending upon
> field width. 
> 
> How do I do this?

2> io:format("~3..0B\n", [2]).    
002
ok
3> 

Be careful though:

3> io:format("~3..0B\n", [2345]). 
***
ok
4>

Hope this helps

Mihai