[Chicago] constant length string manipulation

[Carl Karsten]

string concatenation is icky.

you have too many 5s.

the line is too long.

your variables are too short.

there are no comments.

and it isn't OOP.

Carl K

Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
> 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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