Hey, I am working on my highscore system and hit a wall with the formating of the display...Say the score is 220, like most arcade games I would like it to display as 00220 so that every score is the same length. What is the easiest way to convert the score int into a char with the correct number of 0''s in front. I can figure it out but converting the score into 5 different ints - 0, 0, 2, 2, 0 with this: long denominator = 100000; int displayAmmount = gameScore; int digitToDraw; int varread =1; int d1, d2, d3, d4, d5; for( int count = 5; count >= 1; count-- ) { denominator = denominator / 10; if( denominator == 0 ) denominator = 1; digitToDraw = displayAmmount / denominator; displayAmmount = displayAmmount - denominator * digitToDraw; switch (varread) { case(1):{d1=digitToDraw;varread++;break;} case(2):{d2=digitToDraw;varread++;break;} case(3):{d3=digitToDraw;varread++;break;} case(4):{d4=digitToDraw;varread++;break;} case(5):{d5=digitToDraw;varread++;break;} } } But, I am sure that there is a really quick way to do this...anyone have any tips to share? Thanks a lot! -Tim

you can ue sprintf() to do what you''re asking for.... take a look at one of your compiler''s help files, and you''ll find hout how to do it.... btw, use the %s format with some fillings, to make make all zeroes in front of your numbers, if the score is not large enough....

ya, that''s a good idea, and the code is just like this:

char scorebuf[8];
sprintf(scorebuf,"%05d",score);

there ya go!

- pouya


char text[30];
int score;
sprintf(text, "score: %.5d", score);


the above works too. Can anybody tell me the difference between using the "." instead of the "0" in the sprintf function?

ya, %.5d will print it with 5 decimal places after the floating point, %05d will print it with 5 decimal places before the floating point and put the leading zero''s there until it reaches the fifth digit. the reason that they are working the same way is that %d (integers) do not have a floating point, so they produce the same results, but technically, %.5d is inproper.

- pouya