ribiosUtils (version 1.5-6)

fixWidthStr: Shorten strings to strings with a fix width of characters

Description

Shorten strings to strings with a fix width of characters

Usage

fixWidthStr(str, nchar = 8, align = c("left", "right"))

Arguments

str

A vector of strings

nchar

The fixed with

align

Character, how to align Strings with more or fewer characters than nchar are either shortened or filled (with spaces)

Value

A vector of strings with fixed widths

See Also

shortenStr

Examples

# NOT RUN {
inputStrs <- c("abc", "abcd", "abcde", "abcdefg", "NA", NA) 
outputStrs <- fixWidthStr(inputStrs, nchar=4)
stopifnot(all(nchar(outputStrs)==4))

# }