Keeping leading zero of an integer

Question

Wondering if anyone can help me solve this small problem.
Here's what I had:
for(int i=01; i<13; i++) {
   String month = "2003" + i;
   System.out.println(month);
}This gives me the following output:
20031
20032
20033
20034
20035
20036
20037
20038
20039
200310
200311
200312
However, I want the output to be:
200301
200302
200303
200304
200305
200306
200307
200308
200309
200310
200311
200312
Then I tried this:
String year = "2003";
String month = new String()
for(int i=01; i<13; i++) {
   if(i<10)
      month = year+"0"+i;
   else
      month = year+i;
   System.out.println(month);
}The code above gives me the results I want. However, I'm thinking that there has to be a better way to do this. Is there anyway to increment the variable i and kept it two digits? I mean keeping the leading zero until it gets to the number 10? Any ideas?

Answer 1

the previous poster is right. It's also a little odd how you have things setup, in that you're expressing dates with an unusual approach (most people would use Date or Calendar), but, if you want to keep like you have it, I think this might be the easiest solution:
int date = 200300;
for (int i = 1; i < 13; i++ ) {
  System.out.println(date + i);
}