Re: Forcing String Length?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Hi Rebecca,

At 01:21 PM 9/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
>My question for the day is this:
>  
>Is there away to force string length? For example, my output contains a
string that must contain 10 characters but the XML source is not guaranteed
to supply that number of characters. 
...

In order to trim a long string to 10, or pad a short one with spaces:

substring(concat(string(.), '          '), 1, 10)

Hope that helps --
Wendell


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