Yao, Minghua wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone can tell me how to generate "A01", "A02", ..., "A99"? > > paste("A", 1:99, sep="") generates "A1", "A2",..., "A99". This is not what I want. > > Thanks for the help. > > -MY > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > How about? sapply(1:99, function(i) sprintf("A%02d", i)) --sundar