justify
Aligns the strings completed with spaces within each column, to the left, center or right
Syntax
TJ = justify(T, position)
Arguments
- T, TJ
vectors, matrices or hypermatrices of strings, of same sizes.
- position
Optional parameter, with one of the following values:
'l' or 'left' : left justification (default mode) 'c' or 'center' : centering 'r' or 'right' : right justification
Description
All heading and trailing spaces of T
elements are removed
before processing.
In each given column of TJ
, all strings have the same length.
Shorter strings are padded with spaces before, after, or on both sides.
The width may differ from a column to other ones. Please see the examples
Examples
m = ["a" "bcdef" "ghi" ; "jklm" "" "n" ; "opq" "rs" "tuvwxy"] justify(m) justify(m, "r") justify(m, "c")
--> m = ["a" "bcdef" "ghi" ; "jklm" "" "n" ; "opq" "rs" "tuvwxy"] m = "a" "bcdef" "ghi" "jklm" "" "n" "opq" "rs" "tuvwxy" --> justify(m) ans = "a " "bcdef" "ghi " "jklm" " " "n " "opq " "rs " "tuvwxy" --> justify(m, "r") ans = " a" "bcdef" " ghi" "jklm" " " " n" " opq" " rs" "tuvwxy" --> justify(m, "c") ans = " a " "bcdef" " ghi " "jklm" " " " n " "opq " " rs " "tuvwxy"
See also
- stripblanks — strips / trims leading or trailing or both blanks (and tabs) of strings
- blanks — create string of blank characters
- length — Number of characters of a string. Number of elements of an array or list.
- part — Extraction of characters from strings
History
Version | Description |
2023.1 | Hypermatrix accepted. The position becomes optional,
with default = "left" |
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