>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.
Yes, that looks like the VFP function padl().
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)