Strings and numbers, strcat and num2str

I'm working with SDSS data and want to get rid of some fits files from the ones I have downloaded. I have stored the pl #, mjd, fb # in respective variables and the format of SDSS file naming is spec-plate-mjd-fiber.fits where
  • plate ranges from 250-3500
  • mjd is always 5 digits
  • fiber is 1-640.
I want to concatenate the plate, mjd and fiber number to check for the files and exclude/move them. Here's my code
Tz = '-000'; tz = '-00'; oz = '-0'; j=1;
for j=1:length(pl)
if and(pl(j) < 999, fb(j) < 10)
b = ['spec-0', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), Tz, num2str(fb(j))];
end
if and(pl(j) < 999, or(fb(j) >= 10, fb(j) < 100))
b = ['spec-0', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), tz, num2str(fb(j))];
end
if and(pl(j) < 999, or(fb(j) >= 100, fb(j) < max(fb)))
b = ['spec-0', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), oz, num2str(fb(j))];
end
if and(pl(j) >= 1000, fb(j) < 10)
b = ['spec-', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), Tz, num2str(fb(j))];
end
if and(pl(j) >= 1000, or(fb(j) >= 10, fb(j) < 100))
b = ['spec-', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), tz, num2str(fb(j))];
end
if and(pl(j) >= 1000, or(fb(j) >= 100, fb(j) < max(fb)))
b = ['spec-', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), oz, num2str(fb(j))];
end
c{j} = b;
end
The problem is with fb < 100, it gives spec-1835-54563-077 instead of spec-1835-54563-0077 and same with fb < 10. How can I solve this?

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Note that the concatenations and multiple num2str should be replaced with one sprintf:
b = ['spec-0', num2str(pl(j)), '-', num2str(mj(j)), oz, num2str(fb(j))];
% vs.
b = sprintf('spec-0%f-%f%s%f',pl(j),mj(j),oz,fb(j));
oz wasn't needed that much. I just initialized it because I was too lazy to write -0 again and again, same with Tz and tz, but yes by using sprintf my problem got solved. Thank you .

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Is this what you want?
b = sprintf('spec-%04d-%05d-%04d',pl(j),mj(j),fb(j));

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You shrank the code, a little too much. Thank you, this did the trick.

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