how do i get it to show 30 characters without the browser truncating spaces

"Philip Arnold - ASP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how do you pad a variable in CF.
> for example how can I force a query.columnname to take up exactly 30
> characters?

Just using Left() won't work if you're using variable length fields
(varchar)

You could use Left(myColumn & RepeatString(" ", 30), 30)

HTH

Philip Arnold
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