How to pad or add leading zeros to months

Question

How do I pad or add leading zeros to months? For example, May would return "05"

set the_month_new to button returned of (display dialog "Choose a month:" buttons {"April", "May", "June"})

(run script the_month_new) as integer

Answer 1

Try the following.

set the_month_new to button returned of (display dialog "Choose a month:" buttons {"April", "May", "December"})

set the_month to (run script the_month_new) as integer

if the_month is less than 10 then
    set the_month to "0" & the_month
else
    set the_month to the_month as string
end if