Padding hex values

[Richard]

I want to pad out a hex value with leading zeros, e.g. I
don't want 7B I do want 0000007B. The best I can do is
Return New String("0"c, 8 - Len("7B")) & "7B". Can anyone
do better?

[Brian Davis]

Use the PadLeft function of the String class:

Dim myString as String = "7B"
Return myString.PadLeft(8,"0")
Brian Davis
www.knowdotnet.com
"Richard" <Ri***********@Stortext.com> wrote in message
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I want to pad out a hex value with leading zeros, e.g. I
don't want 7B I do want 0000007B. The best I can do is
Return New String("0"c, 8 - Len("7B")) & "7B". Can anyone
do better?

[Richard]

Good answer. I wish MS were not so cryptic with their
method names!!!

-----Original Message-----

Use the PadLeft function of the String class:

Dim myString as String = "7B"
Return myString.PadLeft(8,"0")
Brian Davis
www.knowdotnet.com
"Richard" <Ri***********@Stortext.com> wrote in message
news:02****************************@phx.gbl...

I want to pad out a hex value with leading zeros, e.g. I
don't want 7B I do want 0000007B. The best I can do is
Return New String("0"c, 8 - Len("7B")) & "7B". Can anyone do better?

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