>Why wouldn't you use something to the affect of PadLeft or PadRight or Substring?
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>string s = "Database"; // You really only allow 4 characters here
>Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(4)); // This gives you only first 4
>Console.WriteLine(s.PadLeft(10)); // increases the length of your string...
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Thst IS what I am using. But It's extra work to write a method with all the "testing" required for length of a string to make sure it is the correct length, when in VB6, it was all automatic.
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