Text Formatting ⇒ Print Leading Zeros on a Counter

[elahrairah]

I would like to use a counter to automatically include image files (for example, I have images im001.png, im002.ping, ... im999.png). How can I use the counter to correctly get the fact that there are leading zeros in the file names? Is there a way to "print out" a counter (or other variable) with leading zeros in this way?

[localghost]

Define a counter which tests several conditions like shown below.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\newcounter{image}
\renewcommand*{\theimage}{%
  \ifnum\value{image}<100 0\fi%
  \ifnum\value{image}<10 0\fi%
  \arabic{image}%
}

\begin{document}
  \theimage

  \setcounter{image}{10}
  \theimage

  \setcounter{image}{100}
  \theimage
\end{document}

To read a single graphics file you then need to insert the counter accordingly.

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\includegraphics{im\theimage}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten