From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T21:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: String#pad  ?


"Jani Monoses" <jani@iv.ro> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:4152AEEF.1060208@iv.ro...
> > Did you mean to say "multiple of two"?  'Cause that's what your code
seems
> > to be doing.
>
> definitely my bad wording since I mislead both of you :)
>
> I just thought that something out of the box to do this would be nice
>
> String#pad and String#pad!
>
> data.pad!(n) #pad data to next 2^n boundary
>
> or maybe powers of two are two restrictive than make n actually mean
that make the strings
> length a multiple of n.

IMHO this application is not general enough.  Also, the name #pad does by
no means imply that the length will be n*m after invocation.  For the
general case there is already #ljust and #rjust.  I'd vote against having
these methods with the functionality you propose in the std lib.

Regards

    robert