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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305211102030.3768-100000@tal.stat.umu.se>
Date: 2003-05-21T09:05:51Z
From: Göran Broström
Subject: Truncation of text strings

How do I print text strings to a given length, ie, if they are too long
I want them truncated (from the end)?

> format.char("123", width = 1)

does not do what I want, ie, "1".

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