PADL()
Left-justifies an expression for a given width
- Syntax
- PADL(<xVal>,<nWidth>,<cFill>) --> cString
- Arguments
- <xVal> An number,Character or date to pad
- <nWidth> Width of output string
- <cFill> Character to fill in the string
- Returns
- <cString> The left-justifies string of <xVal>
- Description
- This function takes an date,number,or character expression and attempt to left-justify it within a string of a given width expressed as .The default character used to pad left side of will be an blank space;however,this character may be explicitly specified the value of .
- If the lenght of is longer then ,this function will truncate the string from the leftmost side to the lenght of .
- Examples
- ? PADC('Harbour',20)
- ? PADC(34.5142,20)
- ? PADC(Date(),35)
- Tests
- See examples
- Status
Ready
- Compliance
- This function is Ca-Clipper compilant
- Platforms
- All
- Files
- Library is rtl
- See Also