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Sarangadhar · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: :X in sort

we generally use 100:X to pad with spaces till 100th position.

IS there a way to pad with some other special character instead of space?
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Sarangadhar · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

here is my requirement:
input file is generally lesser LRECL than ourput file. I wanted to pad some special character till the end of it.
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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject:

You can use a repeated constant, e.g. 20C'*' for 20 asterisks.
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Sarangadhar · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject:

Thanks Frank. It works.
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