Thats what I needed.

Thanks,

Jerry


>>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'
>>

>>
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>Try something like this:
>
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>string name = "Joe.Smith";
>//name = "Steve.Smith";
>name = name.PadRight(10, ' ').Substring(0, 10);
>