Leading 00 to Integers

Grasshopper
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Hello All,

Trying to reformat numbers with leading 00s, such that:

1 = 001
2 = 002
10 = 010
42 = 042
100 = 100 etc

I’ve done it before with the expression tool and Format, something alonfg the lines of “Format(”{000}", x)" but I’m having a massive blank now.

Before there were posts on the old forum solving this. For all the faults of Ning, and how clean this looks, I find it a real shame that many years of help and knowledge is now barely searchable.

Many thanks,
Joe

2

{0:000}

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The first number inside the curly brackets identifies which item you’re formatting (there’s only one, so it must be 0), the bit after the colon specifies the type of formatting.

3

That’s perfect. Thanks for such a swift reply and explanation!