On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:01 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
. . . the particular problem of adding spaces after a string to
fill it out to a specified length.
It would work if the "incantation" argument of format() would
accept a variable name, but I can't find a way to make it do
that . . .
You can't do format("%<myVar>d", otherVar).
But you can do
put "%" & myVar & "d" into temp
format(temp, otherVar)
I'm not sure you can. This in the message box
put "string" into s; put "%" & (20 - length(s)) & "d"into tTmp;
put format(tTmp, s)
produces
-1879024420
(with a total length of 14), though 'put tTmp' produces '%14' as
expected. Did I miss something?
Anyway, the solution in this direction that I was thinking of is
presumably too baroque to be useful -- something like
put " " into s
put "%" & 20 - length(s) & "d" into tTailFmt
put myString & format(tTailFmt, s)
Charles
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