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  • Re: Yet another FORMAT question: column width as parameter

    From B. Pym@21:1/5 to Kenny Tilton on Sun Jul 13 11:07:07 2025
    Kenny Tilton wrote:

    (loop for n from 10 to 15
    do (format t "~&~v,,,'.<~a~>" n "hi, mom!"))

    ..hi, mom!
    ...hi, mom!
    ....hi, mom!
    .....hi, mom!
    ......hi, mom!
    .......hi, mom!


    Gauche Scheme

    (use srfi-13) ;; string-pad

    (for-each (^n (print (string-pad "hi, mom!" n #\.)))
    (lrange 10 16))

    ..hi, mom!
    ...hi, mom!
    ....hi, mom!
    .....hi, mom!
    ......hi, mom!
    .......hi, mom!

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