>This is what V.dbase help says about STR > >STR( [, [, [, ]]]) > >expC > >The character to pad the beginning of the returned character string with when the length of the returned string is less than digits long. The default pad character is a space. If you want to specify a value for , you must also specify values for < >length expN> and . You can specify more than one character for , but STR( ) uses only the first one.