String processing in windows batch files: How to pad value with leading zeros?

Question

in a Windows cmd batch file (.bat), how do i pad a numeric value, so that a given value in the range 0..99 gets transformed to a string in the range \"00\" to \"99\". I.e. I

Answer 1

OK GUYS i have found a solution, compressing it down as simple as possible.

@echo off
title pad numbers
set num=0
set zero= 000
:loop
@set /a num=%num%+1
if /i %num% GTR 9 set zero= 00
if /i %num% GTR 99 set zero= 0
if /i %num% GTR 999 set zero= 
echo %zero%%num%
goto loop

this will display your count up number using 4 digits. but the code can be altered to use 2 digits as shown below.

@echo off
title pad numbers
set num=0
set zero= 0
:loop
@set /a num=%num%+1
if /i %num% GTR 9 set zero= 
echo %zero%%num%
goto loop

if you want to set it as a displayable single variable...

@echo off
title pad numbers
set num=0
set zero= 0
:loop
@set /a num=%num%+1
if /i %num% GTR 9 set zero= 
set %zero%%num%=number
echo %number%
goto loop

if you want it to count up in seconds...

@echo off
title pad numbers
set num=0
set zero= 0
:loop
@set /a num=%num%+1
if /i %num% GTR 9 set zero= 
set %zero%%num%=number
echo %number%
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
goto loop

i hope this was a great help ^^