From: David Fox <david.fox@lindows.com>
To: "William D. Neumann" <wneumann@cs.unm.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [repost] Request for more String functions
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:18:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4036B1CD.8080008@lindows.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0402201302270.14751@clovis.cs.unm.edu>
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William D. Neumann wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
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>>String.truncate - truncate a string to a given length
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>
>I call my version procrustes, because it will also pad a string that is
>too short with an optional padding character (defaults to ' '). In any case,
>it would be great to see some of these functions added to the standard
>library so I wouldn't have to tote around my Wdn module...
>
>
The Scheme standard calls these functions "take" (take the first n
elements) and
"drop" (drop the first n elements.) I don't think it padded them.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 17:28 Richard Jones
2004-02-20 19:34 ` Dustin Sallings
2004-02-20 19:44 ` Richard Jones
2004-02-20 19:54 ` Shawn Wagner
2004-02-21 2:07 ` ChoJin
2004-02-20 20:08 ` William D. Neumann
2004-02-21 1:18 ` David Fox [this message]
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