Prashant Shukla <[email protected]>:
Make the 7-character string a 10-character string if that is how long
you want it to be; see -help recast-.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Prashant Shukla
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks a bunch Austin.
>
> I took the second route you prescribed and most of the steps worked
> perfectly. The only issue outstanding is that when I use -outfile- using
> the -runtogether- option to write the text file, a variable formatted as
> %10s but having an element only 7 characters long occupies only 7
> spaces. I want it to occupy the allocated space of 10 and then have the
> adjacent "|". To elaborate the issue furthermore, even though the format
> of the variable is %10s in the variables window the type column shows
> "str7" for the variable. I guess I want the type to be "str10".
>
> Of course, there are many such variables, with varying allocated and
> outputted lengths, in the file. What am I doing wrong here? Can you
> please recommend a way to correct this issue? Thank you so much.
>
> -Prash.
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