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Line Length

So great to see an awesome turn out for problem 100 yesterday! For today's problem your goal is to write a program that takes in two strings and a line length. The program should then output a string with enough spaces between the words so that the total number of characters matches the line length. If the two strings combined add up to larger than the line length throw an error.

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Comments:

  • Derek - 10 years, 5 months ago

    Ruby

    s1, s2, len = ARGV[0..2]
len = len.to_i
spaces = len - (s1.length + s2.length)
raise "Strings too long" if spaces < 0
puts s1 + (" " * spaces) + s2

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  • Nick Krichevsky - 10 years, 5 months ago

    Python 

    def l(string1,string2, length):
    if (len(string1)+len(string2)>length):
        raise ValueError
    print string1+(" "*(length-(len(string1)+len(string2))))+string2

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