On Apr 4, 2005, at 16:04, Vines, John (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
Hello. I have a question regarding strings. How do I format a string to be a specific length?
For example I need 'string1' to be 72 characters long.
Thanks for your time, John
You can use the string methods ljust, rjust and zfill:
>>> "xxx".rjust(10) ' xxx' >>> "xxx".ljust(10) 'xxx ' >>> "xxx".zfill(10) '0000000xxx'
Note that the string will not be truncated if it's more than (here) 10 characters long, but you can use slicing to get around that:
>>> "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".rjust(10)[:10] 'xxxxxxxxxx'
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