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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assigning a value to a variable Post 302863023 by erin00 on Friday 11th of October 2013 10:25:37 PM
Old 10-11-2013
another question, how can I make sure that the month and day variable will have fixed two digit value.

Example:

Y=2013
M=3
D=9

How can I change those(M=3, D=9) to two digit (03, 09) and be sure that when the input is for example M=11, D=23 the output won't be M=011 and D=023

Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 09:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:59 PM ----------

actually, don't mind this, I already got it. Thanks again nice people!
 

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