Thank you.

>It's better to avoid UDFs in the queries for performance reason. In most cases following should suffice

>-- PADR(col1, 25)
>CAST(col1 AS char(25))
>-- PADL(col1, 25)
>REPLICATE(SPACE(1), 25 - DATALENGTH(col1)) + col1
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>>Is there a SQL Server equivalent for the FoxPro PADR() and PADL() functions. These function pad a string either to the left or right up to a specified number of characters. In this case I'm only concerned with padding with spaces.
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>>BTW, thanks to those building this page
>>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPSQL-TSQL-Mapping