Question: Padding of PREGSTAT

verbal-autopsy-software / InterVA4

R package for InterVA-4 software

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Question: Padding of PREGSTAT #2

Closed mboyas-mitre closed 5 years ago

mboyas-mitre commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/verbal-autopsy-software/InterVA4/blob/792fd94fcad1f143f55865e580a4ea0bc233e5bb/InterVA4_1.7/R/InterVA.R#L95

Why is this padding of the string necessary? Could PREGSTAT be more than five characters (either legitimately or illegitimately)? If so, then we might be altering true information that could be useful.

richardli commented 5 years ago

All possible PREGSTAT are less than 5 characters. The particular paddling is to be consistent with InterVA-4 software output, so that we have the same number of spaces when it comes to text alignment.