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Re: create string of fixed length [message #47874]

Wed, 08 March 2006 06:43

Norbert Hahn
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Registered: May 2003

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justspam03@yahoo.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> here's a probably very easy one (my apologies, but the help file failed
> to provide such)
> How does one create a string of fixed length, say a string consisting
> of 168 space
> characters?

There is no such beast as fixed length of string - if I'm not mistaken.
Surely I can assing 168 spaces to a variable of type string, but when
I execute abc = "*" some lines later, the length of the string abc
will change to one byte.

To maintain the original length and using my example I would have to
replace byte one with "*" in an assignment that may look like
strput, abc, "*", 1

... or am I completely wrong?

Norbert

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		Re: create string of fixed length By: Norbert Hahn on Wed, 08 March 2006 06:43
		Re: create string of fixed length By: justspam03 on Wed, 08 March 2006 01:55
		Re: create string of fixed length By: mmeron on Wed, 08 March 2006 00:28
		Re: create string of fixed length By: Jan Kristian Jensen on Tue, 07 March 2006 23:51
		Re: create string of fixed length By: codepod on Tue, 07 March 2006 17:04
		Re: create string of fixed length By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 March 2006 16:31
		Re: create string of fixed length By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 March 2006 16:07

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