Comments on: AS2 / AS3 Game Score Formatter

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:01:33 +0000

Oops, left the abs() in, but the score = -score takes care of that.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:59:38 +0000

Neither shorter answer takes the negative value into account… I don’t know Flash/ActionScript, but this pseudo code suggests the original could be much cleaner:

addZeros( score, digits ) {
var prefix = “”;
if( score < 0 ) {
prefix = “-”;
score = -score;
}
for( i = abs(score).toString().length; i < digits; i++ ) {
prefix += “0″;
}
return prefix + score;
}

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:26:48 +0000

Heres an even shorter (and recursive) soloution (in javascript):

function addZeros(score,digits) {
if(score.length >= digits) { return score; }
return addZeros(“0″+score,digits);
}

Call with `addZeros((549).toString(),7);`

Will return `”0000549″`

By: pear

pear — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:00:13 +0000

I took a look at this code and it looked pretty complicated to me. I mean, it looks nice, but I came up with a shorter way.
function format(num:Number, digits:Number) {
var answer;
for (var i = 0; i<(digits-num.toString().length); i++) {
if (i == 0) {
answer = “0″;
} else {
answer += “0″;
}
}
answer += num;
return answer;
}
Just felt like sharing…