string.lJustify()

Left justifies characters in a string of a specified length.

string.lJustify( length=number )

Returns: String

Argument Description
length
number, required

Length of field in which to justify string

Examples

name = "yoyo".ljustify(10);
   writeDump(name);
   writeDump(len(name));
   writeDump(len(trim(name)));
   writeDump(len(ltrim(name)));
   writeDump(len(rtrim(name)));

<span class="nf">writeoutput</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;&lt;hr&gt;&quot;</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nv">s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="nv">res</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nf">s.lJustify</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="m">4</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nf">writeDump</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">res</span><span class="p">));</span>
<span class="nf">writeoutput</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;&lt;pre&gt;|</span><span class="s-Interp">#res#</span><span class="s2">|&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&quot;</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nv">s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;abc&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="nv">res</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nf">s.lJustify</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="m">4</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nf">writeDump</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">res</span><span class="p">));</span>
<span class="nf">writeoutput</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;&lt;pre&gt;|</span><span class="s-Interp">#res#</span><span class="s2">|&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&quot;</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nv">s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;10&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="nv">res</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nf">s.lJustify</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="m">4</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="nf">writeDump</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">res</span><span class="p">));</span>
<span class="nf">writeoutput</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;&lt;pre&gt;|</span><span class="s-Interp">#res#</span><span class="s2">|&lt;/pre&gt;&quot;</span><span class="p">);</span>

See also