thank you! "....iiinterressstinngg...."
even more too meditate on, thanks bryan (i see your name everytime i start PD btw)
-andy
moin Andy,
This is quite easy using [string2any] and [any2string] together with pd's [list] operations. see attached example patch. I'm sure the same basic idea can be used to pad [str] strings as well...
marmosets, Bryan
On 2007-12-16 20:54:20, "Andy Graybeal" andy.graybeal@casanueva.com appears to have written:
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
-- Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more bug." jurish@ling.uni-potsdam.de -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology