strtruncpad#

Purpose#

Truncates all elements of a string array to the specified number of characters, adding spaces on the end as needed to achieve the exact length.

Format#

y = strtruncpad(sa, maxlen)#
Parameters:
  • sa (NxK string array) – data

  • maxlen (1xK or 1x1 matrix) – maximum length.

Returns:

y (NxK string array) – contains contents of sa with all elements of truncated to the number of characters in maxlen.

Examples#

sa = "Hello" $| "Hi";

// Truncate or pad to exactly 8 characters
y = strtruncpad(sa, 8);
print y;
print (strlen(y));

The code above produces the following output:

Hello
Hi

8.0000000
8.0000000