Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ames!pacbell!att!chinet!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!disk!specter From: specter@disk.UUCP (Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Left Justifying Keywords: Turbo Pascal Message-ID: <537@disk.UUCP> Date: 7 Sep 89 23:15:40 GMT Organization: KaBlamo! Makers of 'My first cold fusion reactor' & other fine toys Lines: 16 Is there any buily in way to left justify fields in the write or writeln statements? I have been unable to find one, and just assumed that all fields were right justified. If your lost consider the following..... WRITELN('This text.':12); would yield the output... This text. Suppose I wanted it to justify into the left field.. like so... WRITELN('This text.':12,'foo'); This text. foo Is there a way other than a user procedure to do this? -- Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey | /// //\\ specter@disk.UUCP or | /// // \\ uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!specter | \\\/// //====\\ "Sometimes death is better..." - S. King| \\\/ // \\ m i g a