string format

[Alex Tweedly]

Charles Hartman wrote:

>
> On Aug 27, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
>> 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 :-)
>
>
> It would work if the "incantation" argument of format() would accept  
> a variable name, but I can't find a way to make it do that . . .

You can't do      format("%<myVar>d", otherVar).

But you can do
  put "%" & myVar & "d" into temp
  format(temp, otherVar)

Does that help ?

P.S. I still don't see how that let's you solve the initial problem here 
:-) :-)

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