I meant, counting characters from left to right, $test will occupy charcater position 
20 through 25, the print out will look like this.

                   ,abcd  ,  

there are other string variables before and after that $test of course. Greg 

Meckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You can try:
> 
> $test = "abcd";
> 
> $test = sprintf "%24s" , $test;
> 
> 
> Greg
> 
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