[Robelle-l] Padding with spaces

[Redbehren1@aol.com]

Thanks to everyone that responded.  I ended up getting my recipient to allow 
for an extra field at the end of the record to force the spaces.

Priscilla

In a message dated 10/17/02 2:38:25 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Redbehren1@aol.com writes:

>  Good afternoon!
>  
>  I'm trying to create an fixed ascii file with some order information.  The 
>  last field in the record has a length of 50 (X50) within the self-defined 
>  file.  But when I do the output to the ascii file, the trailing spaces in 
>  that field appear to be excluded.  I'm saying that because the person I'm 
>  sending the file to says they are and because when I open the file in 
Qedit 
>  and move my cursor to the line, it jumps to the end of the actual filled 
>  bytes.  I've tried various things to try to force the spaces but nothing 
>  seems to work.
>