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| From | Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Subject | Re: Simple string padding function in Postscript |
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| Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:19:24 +0200 |
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Daniel Taylor wrote:
> I want to write a simple function to convert and integer into a string 6
> characters in length, padding with zeros as necessary. The function add
> the necessary zeros to the front of the string to make the overall length
> 6. Ideally I could pass the function the integer, and the length I want
> the string to be.
>
> For example, if I input '1' I want the function to return '000001'
>
> or if input '123' I want the function to return '000123'.
>
> I've only recently started learning Postscript programming and this is one
> application I haven't been able to solve.
A fairly simple solution (without algorithmic arithmetic) is by the
following procedure:
/bindec % <integer> bindec <string_of_length_6>
{
1000000 add 7 string cvs 1 6 getinterval
}bind def
Helge
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Simple string padding function in Postscript Daniel Taylor <daniel.taylor@nzpost.co.nz> - 2012-07-13 04:03 -0700
Re: Simple string padding function in Postscript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-13 14:42 -0400
Re: Simple string padding function in Postscript Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-07-13 21:19 +0200
Re: Simple string padding function in Postscript Daniel Taylor <daniel.taylor@nzpost.co.nz> - 2012-07-13 14:37 -0700
Re: Simple string padding function in Postscript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-07-13 23:20 -0400
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