FillA
DataWindow expression function
Description
Builds a string of the specified length in bytes by repeating the
specified characters until the result string is long enough.
Syntax
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FillA ( chars, n ) |
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Argument |
Description |
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chars |
A string whose value will be repeated to fill the |
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n |
A long whose value is the number of bytes in the |
Return value
String. Returns a string n bytes long filled with repetitions of the
characters in the argument chars. If the argument chars has more than
n bytes, the first n bytes of chars are used to fill the return string. If
the argument chars has fewer than n bytes, the characters in chars are
repeated until the return string has n bytes.
Usage
FillA replaces the functionality that Fill had in DBCS environments
in PowerBuilder 9. In SBCS environments, Fill and FillA return the same
results.
See also
FillA in the section called “FillA” in PowerScript Reference