>Hi Sergey,
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>Thanks. I just realized that after I posted, because, I guess, vfp is just evaluating it as one string.
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>But now I realize that I need to get the width based on the txtwidth or fontmetric function, and the current font. But I am trying to figure out the right expression?
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>str(fontmetric(6)*len(errsrt.csortname))
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>seems to work right?
>

It should work but I would use TRANSFORM() instead of STR().