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LeftZeroPad

04.08.2005

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var MANY_ZEROS = "000000000000000000";

function leftZeroPad(val, minLength) {
    if (typeof(val) != "string")
        val = String(val);
    return (MANY_ZEROS.substring(0, minLength - val.length)) + val;
}