From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T19:14:34+09:00
Subject: Re: String#pad  ?

Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello
> 
> is there a nicer way of padding a string to a power of two length than 
> for example
> 
> data = data.ljust((data.length+3) & ~3)
> 
> this looks too much like C :)

At least a bit more readable:
data.ljust(data.size + data.size % 2)