Left justification in dataport

garth · 2006-06-20

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

kine · 2006-06-20

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 · 2006-06-21

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 · 2006-06-21

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;

Left justification in dataport

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