[PD] string padding

[Jack]

Is it the best method ? I'm not sure.
Is it what you are looking for ?
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Jack
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Le 16 d?c. 07 ? 20:54, Andy Graybeal a ?crit :

> greetings
>
> i'd like to pad a string... say for instance i want to pad the string
> "andy" and "ian" to be able to have a total of 10 characters, and the
> padding character will be an underscore.  so the end result would  
> add 6
> underscores to the string "andy" and seven underscores to the string
> "ian":
> "andy______"
> "ian_______"
>
> i poked around through extended and did a search on the list  
> archives for
> "character pad" and "string pad", nothing came up in the archives,  
> and the
> only things i found in extended are mrpeach's [str] help examples, and
> moocow's [string2any], [any2string] help examples.  it looks like
> mrpeach's stuff is the closest to what i want, but i don't think  
> it's what
> i want.  after tofofmtl introduced me to pdmtl, i expected there  
> would be
> some string handling in to coincide with the list stuff they have  
> too, but
> nothing there.
>
> thanks,
> andy
>
>
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