Hello Michel,
Strange, I never considered using PADL(), PADR(), PADC() on anything but strings, just never occured to me that you could use numbers even though the help correctly states it can be any expression type but Logical/General.
Thanks for the tip...
Bob
>This one seems to work:
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>lnAmount=29.95
>MESSAGEBOX(ALLTRIM(PADL(lnAmount,20)))
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