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From: jkraai at murl.com (jkraai at murl.com)
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:31:00 GMT
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Subject: padding strings
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Message-ID: <009301be9276$e20531a0$8b7125a6@cpda6686.mcit.com>
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X-UID: 726
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padchar = ' '
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N = 50
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str = 'I need to be padded'
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padded = (str+padchar*N)[:N]
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print '>'+padded+'<'
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print 'len:',len(padded)
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--jim
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Roy Smith <roy at endeavor.med.nyu.edu>
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
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To: python-list at cwi.nl <python-list at cwi.nl>
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Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 2:01 PM
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Subject: padding strings
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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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