From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Nov 23 10:31:41 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iANGVfZ30396 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:31:41 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iANGVfB30388 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:31:41 -0600 Received: from localhost (freelists-183.iquest.net [206.53.239.183]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 557EA72E300; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:38:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([206.53.239.180]) by localhost (misc.avenirtech.net [206.53.239.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04581-113; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:37:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 2ED0372DD35; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:08:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [206.47.0.172] X-Originating-Email: [ganstadba@hotmail.com] X-Sender: ganstadba@hotmail.com From: "Michael McMullen" To: Subject: OT:perl variable question Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:37:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Nov 2004 15:40:12.0064 (UTC) FILETIME=[B83C1A00:01C4D172] X-archive-position: 12621 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: ganstadba@hotmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: ganstadba@hotmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at avenirtech.net I'm trying to get the length of a variable and if the variable isn't a certain length pad it to the specified length. Can anyone help? Thanks Mike -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l