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Old 02-20-2012
Shifting result of echo by specific amount
I am using

Code:
echo "HELLO"

I want to specify a number shiftWt so that I move hello forward by shiftWt charcaters.

Is there a way to do this?
# 2  
Old 02-20-2012
Code:
# prepend
printf  "%20s\n" "HELLO"

# 3  
Old 02-20-2012
I have coded it like this. Suppose I want to have 3 blank characters before the string. If the string is longer than 20 characters, I would not have the 3 characters in the beginning.

Code:
set blk = ""                           # Create a blank string of size shiftWt.
@ x = 1
while ($x <= $shiftWt)
  set blk = " $blk"
  @ x += 1
end

set len = ${%strLst4}
if ($len > 0) then
  if ($i > 1) echo ""
  foreach str ($strLst4)
    echo "${blk}${str}"                # Add blank string to beginning.
  end
  @ i++
endif

Last edited by kristinu; 02-20-2012 at 06:16 PM..
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