SV: string:left (bug ?!)

[Jonas Åman]

Hello.

When using string:left with only two arguments, the second argument should
be an integer. Since the data type character is integers, the function call
string:left(string(), char()) should normally return a new string, however
wrong it may be. But "$' '" is not a valid character, which is the reason
that it does not work. The shell is waiting for another "'" to terminate the
atom started by the second "'" in "$' '".

If you want to pad your string with blanks, you should do like this:

string:left(String, Number) or
string:left(String, Number, Character). Used on the above string, padding it
with spaces, therefor looks like this:

string:left("hello", 10) or
string:left("hello", 10, $ ).

/Jonas


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[mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED]För Jilani Khaldi
Skickat: den 11 augusti 2003 23:22
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Ämne: string:left (bug ?!)


Hello All,

try this:

string:left("hello", $' ').

The shell editor goes infinitely in input mode. I have to press CTRL-C to
get back.
Is this a bug result or something I ignore?

Thanks.

ps.
Slackware Linux 9.0

jilani