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mko
mko

Reputation: 22064

How to make single digit number a two digit number in ruby?

Time.new.month returns a single digit representation of any month prior to October (e.g. June is 6), but I want a 2-digit format (i.e. instead of 6 I want 06).

I wrote the following solution, and I am asking to see some other/better solutions.

s = 6.to_s; s[1]=s[0]; s[0] = '0'; s #=> '06'

Upvotes: 21

Views: 29736

Answers (5)

Schmurfy
Schmurfy

Reputation: 1725

For your need I think the best is still

Time.strftime("%m")

as mentioned but for general use case the method I use is

str = format('%02d', 4)
puts str

depending on the context I also use this one which does the same thing:

str = '%02d %s %04d' % [4, "a string", 56]
puts str

Here is the documentation with all the supported formats: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.1/Kernel.html#method-i-sprintf

Upvotes: 36

Mat
Mat

Reputation: 206729

You can use this printf-like syntax:

irb> '%02d' % 6
=> "06"

or

str = '%02d' % 6

So:

s = '%02d' % Time.new.month
=> "06"

See the documentation for String#%.

Upvotes: 28

mu is too short
mu is too short

Reputation: 434685

If you're trying to format an entire date or date and time (rather than just the month), you might want to use strftime:

m = Time.now.strftime('%m')
# => "06"
t = Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ%z')
# => "2011-06-18T10:56:22Z-0700"

That will give you easy access to all the usual date and time formats.

Upvotes: 5

David Grayson
David Grayson

Reputation: 87416

Mat's answer pointing out that you can use the % operator is great, but I would like to point out another way of doing it, using the rjust method of the String class:

str = 6.to_s.rjust(2,'0')  # => "06"

Upvotes: 11

H6_
H6_

Reputation: 32808

You can use sprintf:

sprintf("%02d", s)

e.g. in irb:

>> sprintf("%02d", s)
=> "06"

Upvotes: 2

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