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Re: create string of fixed length [message #47891 is a reply to message #47890] Tue, 07 March 2006 16:07 Go to previous message
Paul Van Delst[1] is currently offline  Paul Van Delst[1]
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justspam03@yahoo.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here's a probably very easy one (my apologies, but the help file failed
> to provide such)
> How does one create a string of fixed length, say a string consisting
> of 168 space
> characters?

How 'bout

spaces = MAKE_ARRAY( 168, VALUE=32B )

?

It's not quite a string per se, but mostly fulfills the same function.

paulv

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