From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-14T13:31:12+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: String#indent(n)

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 3:16:03 PM, Joel wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> Rubyists,
>> 
>> I think a fine companion for String#ljust, String#rjust and
>> String#center would be String#indent.

> It's pretty easy to just use gsub instead:

>    text.gsub(/^/, " "*4)

> whereas ljust, rjust, and center would require a little more work to 
> emulate with gsub. Or do you have more functionality in mind?

No more, and I realised the gsub trick just after I hit send.  Ease of
implementation alone doesn't discount an idea, though :)

> Just for the heck of it, here are some bits I use from time to time. 
> They might fit in some kind of string formatting library.

Those are good.  There's a place on the Wiki for these.  Is it
StandardClassExtensions?  If you don't add them, I will (when I get
around to it).

Cheers,
Gavin