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Re: Forcing String Length?
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- Subject: Re: Forcing String Length?
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:57:20 -0400 (EST)
- Approve: open4me
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hi Rebecca,
At 01:21 PM 9/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
>My question for the day is this:
>
>Is there away to force string length? For example, my output contains a
string that must contain 10 characters but the XML source is not guaranteed
to supply that number of characters.
...
In order to trim a long string to 10, or pad a short one with spaces:
substring(concat(string(.), ' '), 1, 10)
Hope that helps --
Wendell
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