>>This is to let you all know that I discovered a really nice, undocumented feature of PADL(). It is present in at least vfp7 and higher.
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>>The 3rd parameter can be used to define the Pad Character, says the doc. However, this parameter can be of varying length! An example:
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? "Result: " + padl( 123, 10, "#000000000" )
>>Result: #000000123

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>It is a doc error.
>Correct documentation is
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>PADL(eExpression, nResultSize [, cExpression])
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>PADR(eExpression, nResultSize [, cExpression])
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>PADC(eExpression, nResultSize [, cExpression])
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>? "Result: " + padl( '', 5, "#_" ) && Result: "#_#_#"
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>* The implementation have a bug
>? "Result: " + padR( '', 5, "#_" ) && Result: "#_#_#"  Expected "_#_#_"
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Just out of interest - why would you expect "_#_#_" for PADR()? A general symmetry argument? If so, I would "expect" PADL() to yield "_#_#_" and PADR() to yield "#_#_#".