RE: Toper variable question

From: Reidy, Ron <Ron.Reidy_at_arraybiopharma.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:32:29 -0700
Message-ID: <17CAB0BF27BCFC47B0E4554A0E2F962B439115@fiji.arraybp.com>

Why reinvent the wheel?

perldoc -f sprintf

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Ron Reidy
Lead DBA
Array BioPharma, Inc.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Gogala, Mladen Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:05 PM To: 'spikey.mcmarbles_at_gmail.com'; ORACLE-L Subject: 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=20 of the functions that is implemented is str_pad. The most interesting=20 thing in the whole module is the fact that it is full of rant against=20 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]=20
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:

   $myvar =3D &lpad($myvar, " ", 10);


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


>=20

>=20

> 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?


>=20

> Thanks
> Mike
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>=20



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