Question

I want to keep the zero at the beginning of my NSInteger, but when i NSLog it, the zero is removed.

NSInteger myInteger = 05;
NSLog("%d", myInteger);

log: 5

I get 5 instead of 05. How can i keep the 0 at the beginning of the integer?

Answer 1

NSInteger doesn’t do “leading” zeros. You’re thinking about a number formatting thing.

If you just want to print out leading zeros via “NSLog“, try something like:

NSLog( "%02d", myInteger);

Which instructs NSLog to have two digits and if it doesn’t reach two digits, do a leading zero.

Take a look at the printf format specifiers (which NSLog tries to conform to) and you’ll see how leading zeros are added there.