Category Archives: Coding

Waterbabies and Watercritters

Hi, I have started working on both of these sites for my sister and her business partner, D’Ann Levy and I will be getting them looking all schmik and shiny.

At the moment, they are residing at waterbabies.marksdev.net and watercritters.marksdev.net. Eventually they will be moving to their own domains on my server.

Padding a string with leading zeros

Started the new job here and I was going through the code with the boss of the developers and found a couple of interesting things that I said could be sorted out with a lot short notation. One of the things that I spotted was his looping through something and adding zero’s to the start of it.

I mentioned that it could be sorted our with a single line of code… he was amazed that you could do that.

So here is the code:

response.write Right(String(4,"0") & n, 4)

This is of course done in Classic ASP. All it does is create a string of length 4 and then append the number (n) at the end… easy.