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Posted: **Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:50 am**

How do I left pad an input string with a specific character and get the desired output? For example, if the input is ABC I want to pad X to the left of ABC and get the output as XABC

Posted: **Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:16 am**

For that specific case, with "X" as the pad character and 4 as the width of the output:

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Right(Str("X",4):InLink.TheField, 4)

Generalize to other requirements.

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Left Pad a string with specified character

Left Pad a string with specified character