pad text with trailing spaces

B Caple

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I need to output variable length text as fixed length (15 characters) data, left justified and filled with trailing spaces. Any ideas? Solved....
This message was edited by B Caple on 2002-05-14 12:11
 

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this did not work when I converted Excel spreadsheet to a text file and then opened in Notepad. The cells did not have the correct character position for each column.
 
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