[CMS-PIPELINES] SPEC and PAD

[Gentry, Steve]

I've found that SPEC has a PAD option/function.  From what I've read it is used 
to pad a field with a leading character.
I have a word, in a stream, that can be up to 8 characters long, however, if it 
isn't 8 characters, I'd like to append a dot/period to complete the 8 
characters.  I can use the PAD stage and in the grand scheme of things the time 
is insignificant.
However, I was wondering if the PAD function in the SPEC stage can do such a 
thing.
Thanks,
Steve