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Top Forums Programming Zero Padding to a string Post 28236 by Perderabo on Monday 16th of September 2002 04:20:41 AM
Old 09-16-2002
This isn't the most efficient approach, but it is easy to code:
Code:
char input[6], work[11], final[6];
fgets(input, 6, stdin);
strcpy(work, "00000");
strcat(work, input);
strcpy(final, &work[strlen(work)-6]);
printf(string = %s \n", final);

 

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STRING(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 STRING(3)

NAME
stpcpy, strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strdup, strfry, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strncasecmp, strp- brk, strrchr, strsep, strspn, strstr, strtok, strxfrm, index, rindex - string operations SYNOPSIS
#include <strings.h> int strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n); char *index(const char *s, int c); char *rindex(const char *s, int c); #include <string.h> char *stpcpy(char *dest, const char *src); char *strcat(char *dest, const char *src); char *strchr(const char *s, int c); int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); int strcoll(const char *s1, const char *s2); char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src); size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject); char *strdup(const char *s); char *strfry(char *string); size_t strlen(const char *s); char *strncat(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); int strncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t n); char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *accept); char *strrchr(const char *s, int c); char *strsep(char **stringp, const char *delim); size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept); char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle); char *strtok(char *s, const char *delim); size_t strxfrm(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The string functions perform string operations on null-terminated strings. See the individual man pages for descriptions of each function. SEE ALSO
index(3), rindex(3), stpcpy(3), strcasecmp(3), strcat(3), strchr(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strcpy(3), strcspn(3), strdup(3), strfry(3), strlen(3), strncasecmp(3), strncat(3), strncmp(3), strncpy(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3), strxfrm(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2010-02-25 STRING(3)
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