>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.
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>How can I do this?
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>Example:
>"Joe.Smith"     // I need 1 space added to the end. 'Joe.Smith '
>"Steve.Smith"  // I need 'Steve.Smit'
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Try something like this:

string name = "Joe.Smith";
//name = "Steve.Smith";
name = name.PadRight(10, ' ').Substring(0, 10);