http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:47:53 GMT DZone Snippets: Steveyen's Code Snippets http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/69 <code> <br />var MANY_ZEROS = "000000000000000000"; <br /> <br />function leftZeroPad(val, minLength) { <br /> if (typeof(val) != "string") <br /> val = String(val); <br /> return (MANY_ZEROS.substring(0, minLength - val.length)) + val; <br />} <br /></code> <br /> <br />leftZeroPad(3, 2) ==> "03" <br /> Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:29:26 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/69 steveyen (Steve Yen)