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costas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to format integers so that they are always of a certain length (10 chars)

ie. 15 would become 0000000015
4564747 -> 0004564747
7899 -> 0000007899 etc...

i want to basically add zeros to the front of an integer to make them always the same length

cos