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Re: create string of fixed length [message #47882 is a reply to message #47879]

Wed, 08 March 2006 00:28

mmeron
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In article <dum2em$kdo$1@dolly.uninett.no>, Jan Kristian Jensen <jankj11_nospam_remove_@_bluezone.no> writes:
> justspam03@yahoo.de wrote:
>> How does one create a string of fixed length, say a string consisting
>> of 168 space characters?
>
> And you could always apply brute force:
>
> space = ' '
> longspace = ''
> for i = 0, 167 do longspace = longspace + space
>
What's wrong with

longspace = string(replicate(32b,168))

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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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