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X-Seq: 29912 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------mJNSvVXzke0fBtvxjiTxEeX3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit So I want to adjust the length of string1. I do this  by inserting a spacer in string1 who's length is calculated from the length of string2:     local diff spacer     (( diff = $#string2 - 76 ))     for (( dd=1; dd So I want to adjust the length of string1. I do this  by inserting a spacer in string1 who's length is calculated from the length of string2:

    local diff spacer
    (( diff = $#string2 - 76 ))
    for (( dd=1; dd<diff; dd++ )); do spacer+=' '; done
    ... # spacer will be incorporated into string1, not shown.

It works fine, but I'll bet there's a less laborious way -- some way of creating 'spacer' with  'diff' number of spaces without the for loop.  I could make 'spacer' too long and then cut it at an index [diff], but I doubt that's as simple as it could be.  I know it's there, I just can't quite remember. 


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