Format variable as 4 digits with leading zeroes

Question

A store number could be 1-4 digits.

Store #26 would be 0026 in respect to how devices are named, but I\'d like to give the techs the ease of being able to type 26 to

Answer 1

You would use -format operator:

 '{0:d4}' -f $variable

https://ss64.com/ps/syntax-f-operator.html

the above will work if your variable is an integer, if not you can cast it to integer:

'{0:d4}' -f [int]$variable