Doing this is not a simple thing ... if your running KiXtart version 4.0, might want to consider making a UDF out of this ...

Set $variable to a string and any length and this script will convert it into a fixed-length variable of (in this case) 20 chars ... if the variable is too big, it will be trunctated ... if the variable is too small - it will be paddded with spaces (from the $fixedmask string) ... anyone got a better way of doing this ?

code:

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break on

$variable = "kixtart"

$fixedmask = "                    " ; set this to be a string of spaces of fixed length

$fixedvariable = substr($variable,1,len($fixedmask))+substr($fixedmask,1,len($fixedmask)-len($variable))

?"fixedvariable=$fixedvariable len=" len($fixedvariable)

exit 1

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[ 22 November 2001: Message edited by: Shawn ]