From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: create variable with calculated number of spaces.
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 18:33:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA=-s3xinJ5jT+6hKMrrrF-mj-eKwA_5h_kv+J0swABkvDemJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8809e9e7-2389-4bb7-ba67-95222d302594@eastlink.ca>
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printf "%${spacer}s" "" ?
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 18:04 Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 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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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-06 22:03 Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 22:33 ` Mark J. Reed [this message]
2024-05-06 22:35 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 22:38 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 23:02 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 23:28 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-05-06 23:41 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 23:57 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-07 5:14 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-07 5:52 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-05-07 14:56 ` Ray Andrews
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