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From: roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:02:40 -0400
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Subject: padding strings
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Message-ID: <roy-2904991402400001@qwerky.med.nyu.edu>
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X-UID: 13
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Given a string, I want to generate another string which is exactly N
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characters long. If the first string is less than N, I want to blank-pad
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it. If the first string is greater than N, I want to truncate it.
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What's the most straight-forward way to do that?
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--
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Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu>
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New York University School of Medicine
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