not.fixed()

Syntax

void not.fixed( string string_var(.) )

Description

You can fill a string with or without specifying a start position. If you specify a start position, unused positions in the string are filled with spaces. You can prevent the string from being filled out with spaces by calling not.fixed() before filling the string. Note that, when you assign a new value to the string variable, positions after the new value are not changed.

Note

This function does not work with variables declared as FIXED.

Context

Bshell function.

Example 1

 string buf(10)

 buf(5)    = "***"    | buf contains "    ***   "        (length = 10)
 buf       = "***"    | buf contains "***"               (length = 3)

Example 2

 string buf(10)

 not.fixed( buf )
 buf(5)    = "***"    | buf contains "    ***"           (length = 7)
 buf       = "***"    | buf contains "*** ***"           (length = 7)

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