[Tutor] building strings of specific length

[Mike Hall]

You can chop off anything past 72 characters with:

s2 = s[:72]


On Apr 4, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Vines, John (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:

> Hello. I have a question regarding strings.  How do I format a string 
> to be a specific length?
> For example I need 'string1' to be 72 characters long.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> John
>
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