[stringtemplate-interest] Output string lengths..

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Caleb Lyness wrote:

> John Snyders wrote:
>> Now that we have the format option you could do $d1;format("pad, 
>> 20")$, $d2;format("pad,30")$ and let the render grab the width  
>> from the format name but this is ugly.
> The format specifier is sufficient for doing padding:
>
> c.f: java.util.Formatter
>
> Here is an example:
>
>         System.out.println("result="+String.format("|%-50s|",  
> "hello"));
>         System.out.println("result="+String.format("|%50s|",  
> "hello"));
>
> Output
> result=|hello                                             |
> result=|                                             hello|
>

So,  We could do the following $name; format="%50s"$, right? then  
someone would have to make a string renderer, but that is easy.

Ter