wow, thank you :) I've never used [s2l], [list-len], [Uzi], [last-x], [Append], or [prepend set] ..... lots of new goodies to look at!
thanks alot, this looks like exactly what i wanted. i will now meditate on the patch for some time. -andy > Is it the best method ? I'm not sure. > Is it what you are looking for ? > ++ > > Jack > > Le 16 déc. 07 à 20:54, Andy Graybeal a écrit : > >> greetings >> >> i'd like to pad a string... say for instance i want to pad the string >> "andy" and "ian" to be able to have a total of 10 characters, and the >> padding character will be an underscore. so the end result would >> add 6 >> underscores to the string "andy" and seven underscores to the string >> "ian": >> "andy______" >> "ian_______" >> >> i poked around through extended and did a search on the list >> archives for >> "character pad" and "string pad", nothing came up in the archives, >> and the >> only things i found in extended are mrpeach's [str] help examples, and >> moocow's [string2any], [any2string] help examples. it looks like >> mrpeach's stuff is the closest to what i want, but i don't think >> it's what >> i want. after tofofmtl introduced me to pdmtl, i expected there >> would be >> some string handling in to coincide with the list stuff they have >> too, but >> nothing there. >> >> thanks, >> andy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >> listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
