Inline display of multiple leading/trailing spaces are collapsed to a single one

[pumbers]

Recently came across an issue trying to right-pad a string using the clojure.core/format function and evaluating results inline.

Evaluating (format "%-9s" "12345") displays as "12345 " (6 characters) and appears to be padded with only 1 character, but (count (format "'%-9s'" "12345")) returns 9 which is the correct padded length. CLI REPL displays "12345 " and a count of 9 characters, which is correct.

More detail in the google groups discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/5njSatbtc2c

[pumbers]

Further info: I'm using LightTable 0.6.5, binary 0.8.4, Clojure 1.6.0 and Java 1.7.0_51 under Ubuntu 13.04. Attached is a screenshot of the inline output.

[cldwalker]

I've experienced this white space munging in inline results as well. For example: (identity " ") (3 spaces) appears as " " (1 space).

[joshuafcole]

There may be a quick fix here by putting the inline results into a

tag instead of a 
, but I'd have to dig deeper to be sure,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Gabriel Horner [email protected]

wrote:

I've experienced this white space munging in inline results as well. For

example: (identity " ") (3 spaces) appears as " " (1 space).
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