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 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:43 am Post subject: @fill |
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Hi,
does somebody know how to give @fill the character to fill in ?
The help file says
@FILL( <length> {, <text> { , <justification> }} )
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If no other arguments are supplied, the string is filled with spaces.
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Dr. Dread
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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I think that you cannot decide which character is used to pad the string to the desired length. If the length of the <text>
parameter is not sufficiently long, then @fill() will fill in spaces.
So if you want to have specific chars then use a Text parameter long enough to fill your variable.
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vdsalchemist
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Dr. Dread wrote: | I think that you cannot decide which character is used to pad the string to the desired length. If the length of the <text>
parameter is not sufficiently long, then @fill() will fill in spaces.
So if you want to have specific chars then use a Text parameter long enough to fill your variable.
Greetz
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You are probally right about setting the desired length properly but I believe this function was really put in place to make it possible to build string buffers for use with the Win32 API. I was under the impression that you could only use a single character for the text. I could be wrong though because the help file does not say exactly.
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Dr. Dread
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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You can actually put anything in there..
@fill(12,abcxyz) will produce the string
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