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Potato
Newbie
Joined: 26 Oct 2004
Posts: 1
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 Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:14 pm
Padding values with spaces
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I am trying to get an output in a window to be nicely formatted. I basically have 2 different variables that I concatenate together to get them to be on the same line, and then start a new line for the next set. I have 2 variables that are storing string as a String List.
I want the second variable to start its output starting at column 30, so what i was trying to do is output line number 1, then i wanted to try to do something like
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#MATH padlen 30-%len(%1)
;find a way to add @padlen spaces to variable padding
%concat(@padding,%2)
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That way all of %1 will be starting at the same place and %2 will be aligned 30 "spaces" from the start.
So what im asking is how i can either:
1] Dynamically add spaces to that variable
2] Have a cleaner/easier way in order to get my output to be matched up nicely (like an excel file)
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Serentus
Apprentice
Joined: 28 Sep 2001
Posts: 103
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:06 am
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You could try the %format() function.
%format("&-30s&-s",%1,%2)
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Danlo
Magician
Joined: 28 Nov 2003
Posts: 313
Location: Australia
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:57 am
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You might try searching the finished scripts forum. Iirc, Charbal made a script for neatly aligning things.
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