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Thanks for explaining John.  This method will do just fine for my purposes.

Alan

"John McGrath [TeamB]" <ng-b@JPMcGrath.net> wrote in message
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> On 12/1/2004 at 8:30:12 AM, Alan Shiers wrote:
>
> > Just curious about one thing though, John.  On the second line you
write:
> >
> > "000000".substring( str.length() )
> >
> > Why is this necessary?  I wrote out a println statement:
> > System.out.println("substring = " + "000000".substring( str.length() ));
> > And all this does is return an empty string.  Why concatonate with an
> > empty string? Is there some reason for this?
>
> It is only an empty string if Integer.toHexString() returns a 6 character
> string.  If you feed it Color.BLACK, it will return the String "0", in
> which case str.length() will be 1, so substring wil return "00000".  So
> this code just zero-fills the hex number to 6 digits.  If the string "#0"
> is acceptable, you can eliminate that part.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
>
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