I wrote a script that gets a computer's site name and creates a group
with that name and a number at the end. There will never be more than
600 groups with the same site name. That’s three places to the left
of the decimal. I would like there to be four places to the left of
the decimal just in case.



The naming convention for my groups will be [Group X]-0001.

Whenever I start to add numbers I cant seem to get an output 4 places
to the left of the decimal. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks for all the help.

Keith

"keith" <keithlr2@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wrote a script that gets a computer's site name and creates a group
with that name and a number at the end. There will never be more than
600 groups with the same site name. That’s three places to the left
of the decimal. I would like there to be four places to the left of
the decimal just in case.

The naming convention for my groups will be [Group X]-0001.

Whenever I start to add numbers I cant seem to get an output 4 places
to the left of the decimal. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks for all the help.

Keith
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Try this:
iNumber = 67
sGroup = "[Group X]-" & right("000" & iNumber, 5)

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> "keith" <keithlr2@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5c971a32-8724-4170-b2ac-f3768771abd0@xxxxxx
> I wrote a script that gets a computer's site name and creates a group
> with that name and a number at the end. There will never be more than
> 600 groups with the same site name. That’s three places to the left
> of the decimal. I would like there to be four places to the left of
> the decimal just in case.
>
> The naming convention for my groups will be [Group X]-0001.
>
> Whenever I start to add numbers I cant seem to get an output 4 places
> to the left of the decimal. How would I go about doing this?
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Keith
> ========
> Try this:
> iNumber = 67
> sGroup = "[Group X]-" & right("000" & iNumber, 5)
>
>

Shouldn't it be:

sGroup = "[Group X]-" & Right("0000" & iNumber, 4)

This should work for iNumber from 0 to 9999.

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On Aug 28, 3:47*pm, "Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-
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> > "keith" <keith...@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:5c971a32-8724-4170-b2ac-f3768771abd0@xxxxxx
> > I wrote a script that gets a computer's site name and creates a group
> > with that name and a number at the end. *There will never be more than
> > 600 groups with the same site name. *That’s three places to the left
> > of the decimal. *I would like there to be four places to the left of
> > the decimal just in case.

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> > The naming convention for my groups will be [Group X]-0001.

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> > Whenever I start to add numbers I cant seem to get an output 4 places
> > to the left of the decimal. *How would I go about doing this?

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> > Thanks for all the help.

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> > Keith
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> > Try this:
> > iNumber = 67
> > sGroup = "[Group X]-" & right("000" & iNumber, 5)

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> Shouldn't it be:
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> sGroup = "[Group X]-" & Right("0000" & iNumber, 4)
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> This should work for iNumber from 0 to 9999.
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> Richard Mueller
> MVP Directory Services
> Hilltop Lab -http://www.rlmueller.net
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Thank you both for all the help. It worked great.

In microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript message <e5UZcbUCJHA.2480@xxxxxx
NGP02.phx.gbl>, Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:47:06, "Richard Mueller [MVP]"
<rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxx> posted:

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>Shouldn't it be:
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>sGroup = "[Group X]-" & Right("0000" & iNumber, 4)
>
>This should work for iNumber from 0 to 9999.

Re "shouldn't" : not necessarily. An alternative is

sGroup = "[Group X]-" & Right(10000 + iNumber, 4)

which is one character shorter and might be marginally faster

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