Re: Right-justification of column results

From: "Joshua b(dot) Jore" <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org>
To: "pinkrain (dot)" <pinkrain(at)lycos(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Right-justification of column results
Date: 2002-04-21 04:45:24
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Consider using lpad() to prepend stuff. lpad('text',5,'_') evaluates to
'_text'::text.

Joshua b. Jore
http://www.greentechnologist.org

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, pinkrain . wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way of justifying the text in a column that is returned as a result of the SQL query? This (right-justification of text in a column) has been asked of me, but intuitively, I can't think of a way to do it. I'm using PgAccess to view the SQL results.
>
> Thanks.
>
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