[Zope] string formatting

[Andreas Jung]

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Firstly, why DTML?

Secondly, write a browser view or your app logic into a Python Script
and use a ZPT for calling the script and rendering the result. Such code
as seen below makes us shiver.

Andreas

Ebbe Kvist wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to process a variable, signum2, which is picked up from a MySQL
> database. The content of the variable is
> "B006".
> The aim is to process this variable so the result will be
> "B007" and it will then be saved as part of a new record in the database.
> The core process is to increment the integer part of the variable "006"
> with 1.
> 
> I have successfully done this incrementation but I have not been able to
> create a new
> correct content for the new varable new_xyz.
> 
> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('signumfix2',signum2[1:4])">
> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('signumfix2', _.int(signumfix2)+1)">
> 
> How can I from here create the correct content of the new variable? I
> need to bring the "B" part
> with me and then the incremented integer part formatted with two
> preceeding zeroes. Does anyone know?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ebbe Kvist
> Stockholm
> 
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