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I am trying to pad a fixed number of trailing spaces into a report expression, as follows:

Data:

CUSTOMER_NAME-------------MichaelPeterJohn

Result (e.g. with 10 spaces padded, assuming all names are below 10 characters long):

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Is there an easy way to achieve this ?

Thanks.

Kenny

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