String::paddedleft?

[Harrie_Munnik]

Another newbie question…
I am trying to make a file with substrings with a fixed lenght. Using a texteditor I sometimes have shorter substrings. I want to add additional characters to get the needed lenght of the string. I am trying the paddedleft and paddedright to add the characters, but it does not seem to work.

String paddedLeft (juce_wchar padCharacter, int minimumLength) const;

part of the code:

String naam = editor1->getText(); naam.paddedLeft(1,20);

I am adding the character “1” to the string so it has the total of 20 characters. What do I do wrong? Or is there a much better way of doing this?

Thanks!

Harrie

[ckk]

Try

String naam = editor1->getText();
naam = naam.paddedLeft(1,20);

or better:

String naam = editor1->getText().paddedLeft(1,20);

Chris

[Harrie_Munnik]

Aha! thanks. Typical newbie question. I do not understand why I missed that obvious one.

Is the second way of coding only more efficient in syntax, or also in compiler efficiency?

Kind regards,

Harrie

[jules]

Surely you mean paddedLeft ('1', 20) ???

[Harrie_Munnik]

Your totally correct! Thanks!