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Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer
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Revision as of 17:32, 3 December 2009

Purpose

Function to pad out a string to a specified length


Syntax

PADC(<expC1>,<expN>)


See Also

CENTER(), LPAD(), PADL(), PADR(), RPAD(), STR(), STREXTRACT(), STRTRAN(), STRZERO(), STUFF(), SUBSTR(),


Description

The PADC() function centers a character string <expC1> and pads out the right and left of the string, to a total length of <expN> characters with blanks. PADC() returns the new string. If the string being processed is longer than the specified total length, it is returned unchanged.


Example

? ["] + padc("abc",7) + ["]
"  abc  "


Products

Recital, Recital Server