Hi Fabio,

I've to agree with you on this one. It makes very inconsitent implementation of Binary data in VFP9.

? ALLTRIM(PADC(0hAA,5, 0h00))   && 0hAA
? ALLTRIM(PADC(0hAA,5))   && 0hAA20202020

>Previous issue Thread #966025
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>Bug/Issue : 21 of 36
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>TITLE: BUG: Padding a Binary use Space
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>VERSION: 09.00.0000.1720
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>EXPECTED: PAD?() FUNCTIONS with a binary argument have to use 0h00 like padding default value
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>OBSERVED: PAD?() use space 0h20 with a binary argument
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>REPRO
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>? PADR(0hAA,5) && expected 0hAA00000000
>? PADL(CAST(0hAA AS Q),5)
>