Procrustean assignment
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
After the legendary highwayman Procrustes, who stretched or cut his victims to make them fit a bed.
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