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Old 01-06-2009
harry0013 harry0013 is offline
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Formatting digits
I want to check the argument in KSH. If the user type in the prompt 'find 3' it will format 3 to 003 to match the data in the text file. Same as with 10 to 010. Always begins with 0.

eg.

>find 3

Output:
003

>find 30
Output:
030