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Lee3
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Posted: 01:25pm 10 Dec 2014

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I've written some code that adds a number of minutes to the current time, and outputs a new time. This is on a umite.
e.g 23:00 + 125 minutes = 01:05
instead in this case what I would get is 1:5

is there a way of forcing a leading zero?

I could probably do something with if/then/length operators to decide if the number has 1 or 2 digits, and add a zero, but I suspect there is a much more elegant way ahead.... :)

Cheers
LeeEdited by Lee3 2014-12-11

TassyJim

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Posted: 05:06pm 10 Dec 2014

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For the micromite, STR$ will do what you want:

h=1
m=5
s=0
myTime$=STR$(h,2,0,"0")+":"+STR$(m,2,0,"0")+":"+STR$(s,2,0," 0")

print myTime$

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Lee3
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Posted: 05:40pm 10 Dec 2014

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Thanks Jim
will try it out tonight.
Lee

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Posted: 08:34pm 10 Dec 2014

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@Lee3,

Be careful to remove that extra space that the board has dropped into Jim's "mytime$=... line there Lee - near the end. The last expression doesn't contain a space, it should be +STR$(s,2,0,"0"). It's an ongoing problem that the bulletin board has whenever a long string is posted without any spaces.

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Posted: 08:45pm 10 Dec 2014

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And it was only the other day that I pointed out that you can ofter get arround the extra space problem by putting your own spaces where they don't cause problems:

h=1
m=5
s=0
myTime$=STR$(h,2,0,"0")+":"+ STR$(m,2,0,"0")+":"+ STR$(s,2,0,"0")

print myTime$

I should pay attention to myself more often.

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Posted: 09:16pm 10 Dec 2014

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I remembered that Jim but didn't like to mention it.

Lee3
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Posted: 09:18pm 10 Dec 2014

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I saw that space, wasn't going to put it in.... :)
Then I saw in the manual this is all spelled out....

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