[ic] {Spam?} Re: Leading 0 - calc issue.

[Rick Bragg]

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 15:27 -0400, Rick Bragg wrote:
> I am trying to increment a number and keep it's leading 0.  (I need the
> result to be 2 digits long)  
> 
> The following works fine and returns "08":
> 
> [tmp number]07[/tmp]
> [calc]
> my $num = [scratch number]+1;
> $num = sprintf("%2d", $num);
> $num =~ tr/ /0/;
> return $num;
> [/calc]
> 
> However, if I use 08, or 09, I get "0" returned.  Any idea why?
> 
> [tmp number]08[/tmp]
> [calc]
> my $num = [scratch number]+1;
> $num = sprintf("%2d", $num);
> $num =~ tr/ /0/;
> return $num;
> [/calc]
> 
> [tmp number]09[/tmp]
> [calc]
> my $num = [scratch number]+1;
> $num = sprintf("%2d", $num);
> $num =~ tr/ /0/;
> return $num;
> [/calc]
> 
> Thanks!
> Rick
> 


Using $Scratch->{number} fixes it but I'm just wondering why [scratch
number] does not work?

Rick