SUF9 formatting multi part number

[David Wellman]

Hi,

I suspect that this is really simple, but I simply cannot find the answer.

I have a string value such as "1.2.3.4" which I need to 'format' as "01.02.03.0004".
Yes, the original string might also be "1.2.34.2" which should result in "01.02.34.0002".
- I know that the original string will be a four-part value, delimited by "." characters.

I can't find a simple 'format' command that will do this.

So i thought about splitting the initial string into a table (split on the "." character) and then I could loop through all entries in the table, adding the relevant number of 0's at the front.

But I can't find a 'string.split' or similar function.

Any ideas or suggestions most welcome.

Cheers,
Dave

[Ulrich]

You can use string.format() to format the string as "%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d".

Ulrich