thank you! "....iiinterressstinngg...." even more too meditate on, thanks bryan (i see your name everytime i start PD btw)
-andy > moin Andy, > > This is quite easy using [string2any] and [any2string] together with > pd's [list] operations. see attached example patch. I'm sure the same > basic idea can be used to pad [str] strings as well... > > marmosets, > Bryan > > On 2007-12-16 20:54:20, "Andy Graybeal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > appears to have written: >> 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 > > -- > Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more bug." > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
