look at the following functions
CJustify, LJustify, ,RJustify and RepeatString
Justin
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To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [padding string with blanks]
> here is a perl example you might be able to change to CF.
>
> #pad with leading spaces
> while (length($FullTrackNo) < 18){
> $FullTrackNo=" " . $FullTrackNo;
> }
>
> "Adrian Cesana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to pass a string to a bar-coding process and it must have a fixed
> length of 18, so if the string length is 10 I need to pad 8 blanks in
front
> of it. Ive been playing with the below code. I know it doesn't work but
its
> a start, what happens is the value of blanks get appended to the string
> rather than appending actual blanks. Any idea on how to get the blanks in
> there or a better method?
>
>
> <cfif len(left(FullTrackNo,18)) LT 18>
> <cfset blanks = 18 - len(left(FullTrackNo,18))>
> <cfset TrackNo = '#insert(left(FullTrackNo,18), blanks, 0)#'>
> <cfelse>
> <cfset TrackNo = 'left(FullTrackNo,18)'>
> </cfif>
>
>
> Here is my padded string for the BarCode #TrackNo#
>
> Thanks, Adrian
>
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