Re: General Purpose String Padding

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Re^2: General Purpose String Padding by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 01, 2006 at 21:00 UTC
In particular look for the section "Field filling". DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: General Purpose String Padding by thedoe (Monk) on Feb 01, 2006 at 21:01 UTC
Perl6::Form does not seem to be a solution to a simpler form of this. I would still need to create the template by using something like: `my $template = $dir eq 'R' ? '<' x $max_length : '>' x $max_length;` [download] ~~Also, I do not see anything about padding with a specific character. It seems Perl6::Form only pads with spaces.~~ See this portion now, thanks Grandfather. Still quite a nice module though, I will have to remember it for general formatting in the future.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: General Purpose String Padding by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 01, 2006 at 21:19 UTC
The idea would be to discard $max_length entirely. Whatever is providing the value stored in $max_length would now provide a form/template. Of course, this is not necessarily possible in your case.	[reply]