Slimdave,

Maybe if I tell you what I'm trying to do, you can get a better picture. I am attempting to build a single character string that is made up of three fields concatenated together.

Field X is Char(3)
Field Y is Char(25)
Field Z is Char(10)

Before (the letters on the 1st line are positional markers):

XXXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYZZZZZZZZZZZ
010#E0001K2 034

After:
XXXYYYYYYYYYYYYZZZ
010 E0001K2 034

for a total of 18 characters.

Steve