Padding data with spaces

[PilotBaha]

I 've got a simple problem about padding data with spaces. Say, I have a record of 2000 chars long and I want to assign spaces from position 1000 to position 1500. The way I would do this is with smaller size data is through transfer stage and an assign command. However when we are talking about a data of size it appears to be a problem. (actually two).
The QS GUI won't take any spaces more than 40 chars in the assign command. If I want to press space once for a field that is 500 chars long, it will put only one space and a CR/LF after that which screws up the data.

Does anyone have a solution to this? I know it is unusual to assign spaces this long, but client wants us to take care of this in QS to avoid going back and forth between QS and DS.

Thanks..

[kcbland]

To get a string of spaces, try SPACE(500). Another method is STR(" ", 500). Another method is to format a variable, padding it to the desired width and justification. This is FMT(variable, 'R#500') to right justify in a field of 500 spaces. Look in your DS BASIC manual for more information.

[PilotBaha]

I was strickly talking about the QS perspective, not DS. I know this is a childs play in DS, but not in QS..

Thanks...

[kcbland]

Sorry, didn't notice the topic was QualityStage.