pad_with_spaces.c File Reference

Detailed Description

Provides functionality to manipulate and format strings.

Copyright

• (c) 2002 The University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne National Laboratory.
• (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of California, as Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

License

This file is distributed under the terms of the Software License Agreement found in the file LICENSE included with this distribution.

Author

M. Borland, C. Saunders, R. Soliday

Definition in file pad_with_spaces.c.

#include "mdb.h"

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Functions
char *	pad_with_spaces (char *s, int n)
	Adds a specified number of spaces to the end of a string.

Function Documentation

pad_with_spaces()

char * pad_with_spaces	(	char *	s,
		int	n )

Adds a specified number of spaces to the end of a string.

This function appends n spaces to the end of the input string s.

Parameters

s	Pointer to the null-terminated string to be padded.
n	The number of spaces to add to the end of the string.

Returns

Pointer to the padded string s.

Definition at line 27 of file pad_with_spaces.c.

                                      {
  char *ptr;
 
  ptr = s + strlen(s);
  while (n--)
    *ptr++ = ' ';
  *ptr = 0;
  return (s);
}