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  • January 6, 2011 at 8:33 pm #52193
    Jerry Tilsley
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      All,

      I have figured out how to get the tcl string format command to pad some spaces to the left of a variable, but cannot seem to be able to get it to work with padding to the right.  

      I need to take the following:

      “PAYROLL”

      and turn it into:

      “PAYROLL              “

      Thanks!

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      • January 6, 2011 at 9:10 pm #73363
        Vince Angulo
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          I believe a hyphen in the format string to left justify:

          [format “%-20s” $variable]

          …if the padded result is 20 positions long.

        • January 6, 2011 at 9:55 pm #73364
          Keith McLeod
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            Not fancy, but works:

            set y “${x}[string repeat 0 [expr 14-[string length $x]]”

          • January 6, 2011 at 10:00 pm #73365
            Jerry Tilsley
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              Thanks everyone!

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