[Chicago] constant length string manipulation

[Tim Ottinger]

def padWithTruncate(value, width, fillchar=" "):
    truncated = str(value)[:width]
    return truncated.ljust(width,fillchar)

And of course, I echo the concern about truncating *values*.  It's a 
very dangerous thing to do.
Truncating strings, of course, has different but similar concerns. 

cheers.


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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