Re: [xsl] Print number of chars depending upon int value

Subject: Re: [xsl] Print number of chars depending upon int value
From: "Ranjan K. Baisak" <ranjanbaisak@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:56:04 -0700 (PDT)
>select="substring('...................................',
> 1, $myLength)"/> should do the trick!
But if $myLength is greater than the number of chars
in the string?

-Ranjan
--- Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On ven, 2005-04-22 at 03:47 -0700, Ranjan K. Baisak
> wrote:
> > In a reporting application, I need to print number
> of
> > chars e.g. '.'s depending upon some numeric
> variable.
> > SO it would be a kind of array of chars.
> 
> Isn't a string a kind of array of chars ;-) ???
> 
> > Any function available for the same?
> 
> what about substring()?
> 
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116#function-substring
> 
> <xsl:value-of
>
select="substring('...................................',
> 1, $myLength)"/> should do the trick!
> 
> Eric
> 
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