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"ABCDE" is 5 bytes isn't it? Or am I missing something there? Ron Power Programmer Information Services City Of St. John's, NL P.O. Box 908 St. John's, NL A1C 5M2 Tel: 709-576-8132 Email: rpower@xxxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.stjohns.ca/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 24/06/2005 12:23 PM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: Is there a better way to add padding characters? Matt, >"inTest" is 5 bytes long. It is? :) > Here's some code I whipped up to test adding the padding (this does work > correctly): > begsr pad; > len = %len(%trim(inTest)); Shouldn't you use %trimR() here instead to preserve leading blanks? Doug
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