.TH fmt_pad 3 .SH NAME fmt_pad \- pad a string with spaces. .SH SYNTAX .B #include size_t \fBfmt_pad\fP(char *\fIdest\fR, const char *\fIsource\fR, size_t \fIsrclen\fR, size_t \fIpadlen\fR, size_t \fImaxlen\fR); .SH DESCRIPTION fmt_pad writes \fIpadlen\fR-\fIsrclen\fR spaces (if that number is positive) and then \fIsrclen\fR characters from \fIsource\fR. It truncates the output only if the length would exceed \fImaxlen\fR. It returns the number of bytes it wrote. fmt_pad does not append \\0. If \fIdest\fR equals FMT_LEN (i.e. is zero), fmt_pad returns the number of bytes it would have written. .SH "SEE ALSO" fmt_strn(3), fmt_fill(3)