Re: [xsl] A beautiful way to populate a variable with N blanks?

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not particularly beautiful, but concise: codepoints-to-string((1 to $N)!32)

On 24.02.2023 16:04, Chris Papademetrious 
christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Makita-san,
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> That is the form I was about to post too. Martin's suggestion is a novel use of the "!" operator, but my OCD seems to not like generating data that is never meaningfully used. Although longer, I feel the "for" loop's intent is a bit easier for future novices to follow.
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> That being said, I still enjoy seeing clever uses of the "!" operator!
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>   - Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Toshihiko Makita tmakita@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 9:59 AM
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> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Re: [xsl] A beautiful way to populate a variable with N blanks?
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> How about the following?
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> <xsl:variable name="blanks" as="xs:string" select="string-join(for $i in
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> 1 to $N return (' '), '')"/>
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> On 2/24/2023 11:44 PM, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Hi Folks,
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> > $N contains an integer.
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> > $blanks is a string variable. The string is to consist of $N blanks (space characters).
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> > Below is one way to populate $blanks. It's an awful solution. Is there a beautiful (simple) solution?
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> > <xsl:variable name="tmp" as="xs:string+">
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> >       <xsl:sequence select="''" />
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> >       <xsl:sequence select="for $i in 1 to $N return (' ')"/>
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> > <xsl:variable name="blanks" as="xs:string">
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> >       <xsl:value-of select="$tmp" separator=""/> </xsl:variable>
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> Toshihiko Makita
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> Antenna House, Ina Branch.