RE: Toper variable question

Isn't the presence of modules one of the great exasberations (sp?) of = Perl
One one hand there seems to be a module for everything, on the other you = need to be always down loading new modules.

It amazes me that DBI does not as part of a standard install = (Activatestate at least).=20
Many seeminlg common modules are not there, in fact the default = installed modules is only about 22

John

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Gogala, Mladen Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:05 PM To: 'spikey.mcmarbles_at_gmail.com'; ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Toper variable question

There is no need to write your own functions. There is a module which implements PHP functions. It's called PHP::Strings and one=20 of the functions that is implemented is str_pad. The most interesting=20 thing in the whole module is the fact that it is full of rant against=20 PHP by its authors, but they've chosen to implement PHP string functions in perl, nevertheless.

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From: Greg Norris [mailto:spikey.mcmarbles_at_gmail.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: OT:perl variable question

Here's a quick-n-dirty padding function I've used in the past.

sub lpad {
   return($_[1] x ($_[2] - length($_[0])) . $_[0]);
}

To pad a string with spaces to 10 characters, you'd invoke it like:

   $myvar =3D &lpad($myvar, " ", 10);


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:37:14 -0500, Michael McMullen
<ganstadba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:


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> I'm trying to get the length of a variable and if the variable isn't a
> certain length pad it to the specified length.
> Can anyone help?


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> Thanks
> Mike
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