RE: Is there a better way to add padding characters?

"ABCDE" is 5 bytes but the variable inTest is 16 so you're both right.

Matt 

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"ABCDE" is 5 bytes isn't it?  Or am I missing something there?

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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