Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

Is it possible, using the ToString function, to take an integer and
conver to a string of fiexd width with the leading spaces padded with
zeroes.

e.g. integer 123 converted to a string of length 9 with 6 leading
zeroes i.e. 000000123

integer 98765432 converted to a string of length 9 with 1
leading zero i.e. 098765432

Thus, the string is fixed length with leading zeroes to the right.

Cheers

Mark

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

On Jun 25, 9:36 am, stainless <Mark.Wingfi...@gmail.comwrote:(You mean leading zeroes to the left, I believe.)

using System;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine (123.ToString("D9"));
Console.WriteLine (98765432.ToString("D9"));
}
}

Jon

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

..ToString("000000000");

Marc

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

that is tidier Jon; I was being dumb ;-p

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

On 25 Jun, 09:45, "Marc Gravell" <marc.grav...@gmail.comwrote:Thanks,

that looks like the answer

Cheers

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

On 25 Jun, 09:51, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <s...@pobox.comwrote:Ok thats an answer too!

Cheers

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

You will have to excuse my inexperience with C# but I cannot get the
ToString("D9") to work when debugging. The message returned is

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

Should I have defined something earlier in my C# to allow the "D9" as
an argument for this method?

Cheers

Mark

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

On Jun 27, 12:50 pm, stainless <Mark.Wingfi...@gmail.comwrote:What are you calling ToString() on?

If you're writing code in the debugger's immediate window, you may
well find it easier to write a very small test application instead (I
almost always use a console app). That way you're isolated from any
differences between the debugger and "normal" code.

Jon

re: Using ToString to pad an integer with leading zeroes

On 27 Jun, 13:02, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <s...@pobox.comwrote:Many apologies. I sorted it out. I was trying to use ToString with a
non integral type (a value returned in an SQL recordset). Once I
converted this to a type "int", the ToString method allowed for
overloads.

Cheers

Mark