Left justification in dataport

garth

How do I left justify text in a fixed field dataport export? Adding spaces to the end of the text does not work.

kine

The field is text or code? Code trim all spaces from right...

But why you need to Left-justify the field, if you are using fixed position type? Next field will begin on given position, all between will be filled with spaces... or not?

garth

Sorry - I meant right justify text on a dataport export - only seems to work if I zero fill the leading spaces, but not if I space fill them.

kine

If you are using CODE type, the leading spaces will be trimmed. Use Text datatype or use the trigger OnAfterFormatField on the Dataport field in this way

<variablename> - OnAfterFormatField(VAR Text : Text[1024])
WHILE STRLEN(Text)<10 DO
  Text := ' ' + Text;