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    <title>DZone Snippets: pad code</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:38:20 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>DZone Snippets: pad code</description>
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      <title>Array#pad!</title>
      <link>http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5331</link>
      <description>My ri docco says there is an Array#pad! but runtime Ruby says there isn't. Bah. So I wrote one:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;class Array&lt;br /&gt;  def pad!(expected_length, pad_item = nil)&lt;br /&gt;    while expected_length &gt; length&lt;br /&gt;      self &lt;&lt; pad_item&lt;br /&gt;    end&lt;br /&gt;    self&lt;br /&gt;  end&lt;br /&gt;end&lt;/code&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:44:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5331</guid>
      <author>nicwilliams (Dr Nic Williams)</author>
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