RE: Toper variable question

There is no need to write your own functions. There is a module which implements PHP functions. It's called PHP::Strings and one of the functions that is implemented is str_pad. The most interesting thing in the whole module is the fact that it is full of rant against PHP by its authors, but they've chosen to implement PHP string functions in perl, nevertheless.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Norris [mailto:spikey.mcmarbles_at_gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:46 AM
To: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: OT:perl variable question

Here's a quick-n-dirty padding function I've used in the past.

sub lpad {
   return($_[1] x ($_[2] - length($_[0])) . $_[0]);
}

To pad a string with spaces to 10 characters, you'd invoke it like:

   $myvar = &lpad($myvar, " ", 10);


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:37:14 -0500, Michael McMullen
<ganstadba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:


> 

> 

> I'm trying to get the length of a variable and if the variable isn't a

> certain length pad it to the specified length.

> Can anyone help?

> 

> Thanks

> Mike

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