string format

[Alex Tweedly]

Marielle Lange wrote:

> There was some discussion not long ago on how to add spaces such that  
> a string fills a given fixed length. I discovered today that it was  
> in fact possible to use the equivalent of the sprintf command found  
> in c:
>
The format function is indeed very useful - but I don't think it can be 
used to solve the particular problem of adding spaces after a string to 
fill it out to a specified length.

Or at least - when I was looking at the problem the other day, one of 
the alternatives I considered was "format", but I couldn't see a way to 
use it to solve this problem :-) 

-- 
Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005