{"id":4250,"date":"2022-03-09T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:06:46","slug":"using-strings-replace-and-insert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/strings-python\/using-strings-replace-and-insert","title":{"rendered":"Using Strings-Replace and Insert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Replace<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>my_string = my_string.replace(\"ReplaceThis\", \"WithThis\")<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add string to string, forcing a fixed length<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>#**************************************************************\n#**************************************************************\n#********** ADD FIXED LENGTH STRING TO STATUS STRING **********\n#**************************************************************\n#**************************************************************\n#Example usage:\n#   my_string = \"\"\n#   my_string = add_fixed_length_string(my_string, \"Name\", 10)\n#   my_string = add_fixed_length_string(my_string, \"1234567890EXTRA\", 10)\n#   my_string = add_fixed_length_string(my_string, \"Short\", 10)\n#   my_string will be: \"Name       | 1234567890 | Short     \"\ndef add_fixed_length_string(output_string, add_string, add_string_fixed_length):\n    if output_string != \"\":\n        output_string += \" | \"\n\n    if len(add_string) &lt; add_string_fixed_length:\n        add_string = add_string.ljust(add_string_fixed_length)\n    elif len(add_string) > add_string_fixed_length:\n        add_string = add_string&#91;:add_string_fixed_length]\n\n    output_string += add_string\n    return output_string<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replace Add string to string, forcing a fixed length<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strings-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/python\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}