I need to get the first 10 characters from a string. If the string is less than 10, I want to pad it to the right with spaces. If the string is over 10, I want to chop off everything pass position 10.

How can I do this?

Example:
"Joe.Smith"     // I need 1 space added to the end. 'Joe.Smith '
"Steve.Smith"  // I need 'Steve.Smit'

Thanks,

Jerry