re: Padding a length of string

Brian Morgan [[email protected]] wrote:
> $max = $ARGV[0];
> $key = $ARGV[1];
> $pad_string = $ARGV[2];
> @key_chars = split(//, $key);
> $count = $#key_chars + 1;
> while ($count <= $max){
>     $key .= $pad_string;
>     $count++;
> }
> print $key;

You had part of the solution in your subject [length]:

   $key .= $pad_string x ($max - length($key));
   print $key;



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