>Eric cut a little dity loose here and it got me missing the VFP PAD functions. Eric's the man. I am also uploading this to the files area for other foxheads moving into VB's string manipulation.
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>' Thanks go to Éric Moreau for this one!! I renamed to PadL and made
>' a small change to param order to allow optional padchar Now
>' PADC,PADL,PADR works just like momma used to make  :)

Perfect. I call this team work!

Éric Moreau, MCPD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
Moer inc.
http://www.emoreau.com