Blank space text

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Hi,

I am woundering simply if there is a blank space text character that takes as a count in string?

Pretty much similar as the “Left Pad” string node. The problem I find with “Left Pad” is that it doesn’t seem to caount “one” pad as one character?

My goal is to pad a string with empty blank space characters on both left and right of a string.
I have an int array of length of each string. Then I get the max of int array and compare it to each int length.
The int var “CountDifference” / 2 is what I want to pad on left and right on string that is not equal to max of int array.

So far I have just used a “" character as kind of a debug dummy character to test the idea.
But know I’d like to replace "” with a blank space.

Thanks!

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Not sure what you mean here…a ‘space’ character counts as a character in a string. If you want to pad a string with blank spaces use the append string node and have 3 inputs. Input ‘A’ and Input ‘C’ will both be a 'space" character and Input ‘B’ will be the int array you want to pad.

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Thanks for the reply. Ok, so one space = one character, two spaces = two characters etc.? Will the string count be effected if converted to i.e. text var?
My goal is to set it to the SetText node.

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Yes and no. The string count is the string count. A text can also contain spaces and be parsed back into a character string.

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Ok thanks for the input!