justify

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

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