NAME

Meta::Math::Pad - pad numbers with zeros.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Pad.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.12

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Math::Pad qw();
        my($number)="19";
        my($padded)=Meta::Math::Pad::pad($number,4);
        # $padded should now be "0019"

DESCRIPTION

This module handles padding numbers to achieve a certain presentation. This module currently provides just a single function but may provide decimal point padding and other functions in the future.

FUNCTIONS

        pad_easy($$)
        pad($$)
        unpad($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

pad_easy($$)

This function will pad a number to the required number of digits. If the number is longer then it will do nothing.

pad($$)

This function will pad a number to the required number of digits. If the number is longer then it will raise an exception.

unpad($)

This function will "unpad" a number. If you give it something "002" it will give you "2".

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV multi image viewer
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV md5 project
        0.03 MV database
        0.04 MV perl module versions in files
        0.05 MV movies and small fixes
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV web site automation
        0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.11 MV weblog issues
        0.12 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), strict(3)

TODO

-any faster way to do this ? (faster way to generate a string in perl with n occurances of the character 'c')

-provide decimal point padding.

-provide padding with spaces instead of 0's.

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init