>>>Would something like ABC = REPLICATE('0',10) help? Or abc = '0000000'?
>>>Mark
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>>yea, thanks...
>
>Or if your dealing with numeric values that needs to have
>left side padding (in this sample, lenght needed is 8 with 2 decimal)
>
>abc = strtran( str( mynum, 8, 2 ), ' ', '0' )
thanks - I will try it ... :)