Re: adding spaces
Re: adding spaces
- Subject: Re: adding spaces
- From: "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:12:34 -0500
on 8/25/03 10:15 PM, Natalie Lambert at email@hidden wrote:
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I'm finding lots of references on triming spaces but
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nothing on adding spaces...
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I need to take a piece of data and ensure it is a
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specific character length. If the number of charaters
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are less than those required then I need to fill the
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rest with spaces
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ie
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the space the heading needs to fill is 20 characters
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the heading is "Cars"
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the script needs to:
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set x to count characters of heading
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subtract x from 20
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add one space for the remainder
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--in this case cars + 16 spaces
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I know this is going to need a repeat function but I'm
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a little unclear on the adding spaces bit since I
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haven't scripted in a while.
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can anyone help?
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thanks
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natalie
I'm sure you'll get many examples. Here is one way. It does not use a repeat
function, just simple math.
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set h to "cars"
set nH to padHeading(h)
on padHeading(x)
set pad to " " -- that's 20 spaces
set headCount to length of x
set y to ((length of pad) - headCount)
set x to (x & (characters 1 thru y) of pad)
return x
end padHeading
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Hope that helps.
--
Bob.Kalbaugh
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