$w. Format

Writes standard character data.

Category: Character
Alignment: Left
Alias: $Fw.
Syntax
Arguments
Comparisons
Example
See Also

Syntax

$w.

Arguments

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default The length of the output is the length of the input variable; if the input variable’s length is undefined, the default length is 1.
Range 1–32767

Comparisons

The $w. format and the $CHARw. format are identical, and they do not trim leading blanks.

Example

Statements1
Results1
 
----+----1----+----2
 
select put('#Cary',$5.);
 
#Cary
 
select put('#Cary',$f5.);
 
#Cary
 
select put('Carolina',$5.);
 
Carol
1The character # represents a blank space.

See Also

Formats:
$CHARw. Format
w.d Format
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Last updated: February 23, 2017