Format an iterator in LabVIEW

Question

I am writing out a series of files in a while loop, they are named

1.dat, 2.dat, 3.dat...

but I need the numbers to be formatted to -

00001.dat, 00002.dat, 00003.dat...

so that the file order is maintained when reading them back in. Is there a way to change the format of the while loop iterator?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '12 at 10:09

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Use the "format into string" node, it allows to pad integer with zeros:

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answered Sep 06 '12 at 10:09

CharlesB

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Note that this starts with 000, and has 3 digits. – Ton Plomp Sep 06 '12 at 19:45

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