[Chicago] constant length string manipulation

[Massimo Di Pierro]

what's wrong with

b=(a[:5]+'     ')[:5]

Massimo

On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2007 3:29 PM, Cosmin Stejerean <cstejerean at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> b.ljust(5)[:5]
>
> a='1234567890' or a='123'
> b=a.ljust(5)[:5]
>
> so I guess ljust will do.
> Thanks.
> Lucas
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