From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-06-26T03:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Missing parantheses maybe ?

2006/6/24, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com>:
> .rjust dosn't seem to be working correctly, no error, but it's not
> right justifying either.
>
> my output for the .rjust looks like this:
> Chapter 1                     Getting Started
>              page 1
> Chapter 2                     Numbers
>              page 9
> Chapter 3                     Letter
>             page 13
>
> here is the first line (Chapter 1...)
>
> puts(              toc[1].ljust(line_width) + toc[2].ljust(line_width)
> + toc[3].rjust(line_width))
>
> I hand tweaked teh .rjust parameter with hard numbers .rjust(20)
>
>         .rjust(25), etc and that helped but I thought .rjust would
> make sure the last letters of the strings would all line up.

For this scenario sprintf / printf are probably better suited.

Kind regards

robert

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