>>I can't replicate behaviour described in vfp6 either. I did notice something a little odd. Try: padl("12345678",6) and it returns "123456".
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>Einar,
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>Yes, I noticed that too in both VFP 8.0 and FPD 2.5. To me, this is the expected behavior. You're telling the function to return a 6 character length string and this is what it does.

George,
Yes I guess it is expected behavior the more I think about it, but it might be a very hard 'bug' to find if you are not aware of it.
Einar