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? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]