Pad a String / Discussion

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noahbaby94 20 Sep 2008 19:41

I personally think that the routine needs to do back to how it was.
With this

:For(X,1,N
:" "+Ans+" 
:End
:Ans→Str1

Instead of this

:For(X,1,N
:" "+Ans+" →Str1
:End

While the second one is 2 bytes smaller. The first one is more than 40% faster.So should it be faster or smaller?I personally am in support of the first one.

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jnesselr 21 Sep 2008 14:13

honestly, I think that we should go with faster.

However, if you are looking at the fact that this was the original code:

:For(X,1,N
:" "+Ans+" →Str1
:End

and this is what I changed it too:

:For(X,1,N
:" "+Ans+"→Str1
:End

I only did that because the first one looked weird.

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noahbaby94 21 Sep 2008 14:25

Well the second code gives a error because your adding a empty string.

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jnesselr 21 Sep 2008 14:30

Question, What is the Variable N here?

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noahbaby94 21 Sep 2008 17:13

How many times you pad it like it your padding "?" and N=2 then Str1 will be " ? ".

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Why is this deleted?

kg583 25 Jun 2018 15:40

I was perusing the routines and found this routine page which was inexplicably deleted just over 3 years ago. There's still a link to it from the [strip-a-string:Strip a String] routine, though. I am unable to restore the page (if it was in fact not supposed to be deleted), but if it is supposed to be deleted then we should remove the links to it.

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Re: Why is this deleted?

jonbush 26 Jun 2018 00:18

I have un-deleted it. It was probably deleted initially because it is a pretty simple algorithm that is not specific to padding strings. Anyone that knows about For loops and string concatenation could easily come up with this.