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  • February 3, 2012 at 5:05 pm #52925
    Johnny Anderson
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      CL v5.8, HL7 v2.5.1, Sun, Solaris 10.

      I want a counter to look like this: 001, 002, 003, 004, etc.  Will be used as part of a filename.

      My code:

      set  filenamectr 001

      echo “@@@ 1st filenamectr: ” $filenamectr

      set  filenamectr [format “%03s” $filenamectr]

      incr filenamectr 001

      echo “@@@ 2nd filenamectr: ” $filenamectr

      Results:

      @@@ 1st filenamectr:  001

      @@@ 2nd filenamectr:  2

      Found examples on the forum and tcl guides.  One warned about math and octal.  What

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      • February 3, 2012 at 5:35 pm #75950
        Charlie Bursell
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          beginning zero is octal

          Do this:

          set  filenamectr 1

          set fmtnamectr [format “%03s” $filenamectr]

          echo “@@@ 1st filenamectr: ” $fmtnamectr

          incr filenamectr

          set fmtnamectr [format “%03s” $filenamectr]

          echo “@@@ 2nd filenamectr: ” $fmtnamectr

        • February 3, 2012 at 8:04 pm #75951
          Johnny Anderson
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            Charlie, made the change and reran.  Looks good until counter got to 008, then it quits with octal error.  See ppt attachment.

            The op files stop at 008:

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_002.txt

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_003.txt

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_004.txt

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_005.txt

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_006.txt

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_007.txt

            starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203134008_008.txt

            Searched forum, to fix octal it says to do

          • February 3, 2012 at 9:02 pm #75952
            James Cobane
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              You should keep your counter as a pure integer, and simply apply the “format” to it using a new variable to use within the filename:

              set

            • February 3, 2012 at 9:41 pm #75953
              Johnny Anderson
              Participant

                Thanks Jim, that did it.

                op files:

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_001.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_002.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_003.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_004.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_005.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_006.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_007.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_008.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_009.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_010.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_011.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_012.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_013.txt

                starlims_labrep_oru_switch_20120203154031_014.txt

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