For C programming. How do i get numbers to be displayed as 00, 01, 02, 03, instead of 0, 1, 2, 3. I just need 0 before the number until 10.
i know when your doing decimals you can do "%.2f" etc. but what about in reverse for integers?
here is what I am using...**
printf("Please enter the hours: ");
scanf ("%d",&hour);
printf("Please enter the minutes: ");
scanf ("%d",&minute);
printf("Please enter the seconds: ");
scanf ("%d",&second);
printf("%d : %d : %d\n", hour, minute, second);
}
I need the numbers to display as 00 : 00 : 00
??
You need to use %02d
if you want leading zeroes padded to two spaces:
printf ("%02d : %02d : %02d\n", hour, minute, second);
See for example the following complete program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main (void) {
int hh = 3, mm = 1, ss = 4, dd = 159;
printf ("Time is %02d:%02d:%02d.%06d\n", hh, mm, ss, dd);
return 0;
}
which outputs:
Time is 03:01:04.000159
Keep in mind that the %02d
means two characters minimum width so it would output 123 as 123
. That shouldn't be a problem if your values are valid hours, minutes and seconds, but it's worth keeping in mind because many inexperienced coders seem to make the mistake that 2 is somehow the minimum and maximum length.
Use the format: %02d
instead. The 0
means to pad the field using zeros and the 2
means that the field is two characters wide, so for any numbers that take less than 2 characters to display, it will be padded with a 0.