I have records with two words of variable length, and I want to pad the
second word plus a separator after it to a fixed length, like so:
first second -> first second: more
first secondword -> first secondword: more
firstword second -> firstword second: more
firstword secondwd -> firstword secondwd: more
In this exact scenario, knowing the number of words before the separator
and knowing my second word won't overrun the space, I can pad the second
word and then play games with CHANGE:
... | specs w1 1 w2 nw.11 'more' nw | change w2.2 ' ': ' 1 | ...
Otherwise, I'd build the middle section of the record separately:
(end /) ...
| dup: fanout
| specs <left piece here>
| all: gather
| join 2
| ...
/ dup:
| specs w2 1 ':' n '' 13
| all:
/ dup:
| specs <right piece here>
| all:
Am I overlooking a more straightforward way?
¬R
