Hi,
Tim Chase wrote:
>>> zeros on the left if needed. Ideally, Vim would provide a
>>> right() function where you could just do something like
>>>
>>> right('0'.submatch(1), 2)
>>>
>>> to zero-pad to 2 places. Alas, the substitute() trick is the
>>> easiest way I've found to simulate this.
>> repeat('0', 2 - strlen(submatch(1))) . submatch(1)
>
> A slight step in the right direction. Two caveats, however:
>
> 1) if strlen(submatch(1)) > 2 (in other cases, not this
> particular one where it's limited to at most 2 characters
> initially), then this formula can end up with a result that is >
> 2 characters. A true right() function would never return more
> than 2 characters (okay...insert funky tangent about
> unicode/UTF-8 characters here).
function! Right(s, n)
return strpart(s, strlen(s) - n, n)
endfunction
Regards,
Jürgen
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