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## Manual Page Viewer

Name: PAD

Section: String Operators

Synopsis:

`<pad STRING TOTAL-SIZE [ALIGN=(RIGHT|LEFT|MIDDLE)] [TRUNCATE]>`

Description:

Pads STRING to a length of TOTAL-SIZE. ALIGN can be one of `LEFT`, `MIDDLE`, or `RIGHT` (the default).

`PAD` inserts the correct number of spaces to make the input argument take the desired number of spaces (presumably for use in a `<pre> ... </pre>` statement).

The optional arg `TRUNCATE` says to force the string to be the specified length.

Before any padding is done, leading and trailing whitespace is removed from STRING.

Examples:

      <pad "Hello" 10>              --> "     Hello"
      <pad "Hello" 10 align=left>   --> "Hello     "
      <pad "Hello" 10 align=middle> --> "  Hello   "
      <pad "  Heckle  " 4 truncate> --> "Heck"

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