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try rpad
http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/901_doc/server.901/
a90125/functions105.htm#78725
from the docs:
RPAD
Syntax
rpad::=
Text description of rpad
Purpose
RPAD returns char1, right-padded to length n with char2, replicated as many
times as necessary; char2 defaults to a single blank. If char1 is longer
than n, this function returns the portion of char1 that fits in n.
Both char1 and char2 can be any of the datatypes CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, CLOB, or NCLOB. The string returned is of VARCHAR2 datatype and is in the same character set as char1.
The argument n is the total length of the return value as it is displayed on your terminal screen. In most character sets, this is also the number of characters in the return value. However, in some multibyte character sets, the display length of a character string can differ from the number of characters in the string.
Example
The following example rights-pads a name with the letters "ab" until it is
12 characters long:
SELECT RPAD('MORRISON',12,'ab') "RPAD example"
FROM DUAL; RPAD example
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