>There was extra closing parenthesis at the end of expression, sorry. Here's working code.

? EVALUATE(REPLICATE([STRTRAN(], ;
>             CEILING(SQRT(OCCURS(SPACE(1),lcStr))))  + [lcStr] + ;
>       REPLICATE([, SPACE(2), SPACE(1))], ;
>             CEILING(SQRT(OCCURS(SPACE(1),lcStr)))) )
>* Or for readability you can split in into two lines
>lnRepCount = CEILING(SQRT(OCCURS(SPACE(1),lcStr)))
>? EVALUATE(REPLICATE([STRTRAN(], lnRepCount) + [lcStr] + ;
>			REPLICATE([, SPACE(2), SPACE(1))], lnRepCount))
>

Yes, this is now working. Thanks