Cancel the request.  The field coming in actually had 10 spaces in it, so
I just removed the spaces doing this:

$field14 = @fields[14];
$field14 =~ s/ //g; 
print NEWQUOTES ($field14);


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Scott wrote:
> printf NEWQUOTES ("%-5s", @fields[14]);
> When I run the code I get 10 extra spaces before the next field instead of
> the 5.  The value of @fields[14] is:  A2103.
> Is there a problem with the value being alpha/numeric?


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