Meaning of Procrustean assignment | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of assignment to fixed-length string variables in which a shorter value is padded to the necessary length while a longer one is truncated.

dated, rare, uncountable

Examples

“[…]the string that is being assigned to it is cut off on the right if it is too long, or filled out with spaces if it is too short - this is called Procrustean assignment[…]”

“[…] that Procrustean assignment that the Manual goes on about: string arrays always have a fixed length of word.”

“Because the T/S uses procrustean assignment for string arrays, there are some uses for single-element arrays.”

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