From: roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:02:40 -0400
Subject: padding strings
Message-ID: <roy-2904991402400001@qwerky.med.nyu.edu>
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Given a string, I want to generate another string which is exactly N
characters long.  If the first string is less than N, I want to blank-pad
it.  If the first string is greater than N, I want to truncate it.

What's the most straight-forward way to do that?

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Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine