RE: Toper variable question
- From: "Hallas, John, Tech Dev" <John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx>, "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:35:07 -0000
Isn't the presence of modules one of the great exasberations (sp?) of =
Perl
One one hand there seems to be a module for everything, on the other you =
need to be always down loading new modules.
It amazes me that DBI does not as part of a standard install =
(Activatestate at least).=20
Many seeminlg common modules are not there, in fact the default =
installed modules is only about 22
John
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gogala, Mladen
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:05 PM
To: 'spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx'; ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Toper variable question
There is no need to write your own functions. There is a module
which implements PHP functions. It's called PHP::Strings and one=20
of the functions that is implemented is str_pad. The most interesting=20
thing in the whole module is the fact that it is full of rant against=20
PHP by its authors, but they've chosen to implement PHP string functions
in perl, nevertheless.
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Ext. 121
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Norris [mailto:spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:46 AM
To: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: OT:perl variable question
Here's a quick-n-dirty padding function I've used in the past.
sub lpad {
return($_[1] x ($_[2] - length($_[0])) . $_[0]);
}
To pad a string with spaces to 10 characters, you'd invoke it like:
$myvar =3D &lpad($myvar, " ", 10);
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:37:14 -0500, Michael McMullen
<ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I'm trying to get the length of a variable and if the variable isn't a
> certain length pad it to the specified length.
> Can anyone help?
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> Thanks
> Mike
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