Data Transformation Engine Design Studio Tutorial

Chapter 9 - Data Breaks by Object Count Merging the Contact Group Type
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In the output data, Record has an explicit, fixed format. Each Record contains
the same number of characters of data.
In the output data, each Company field in Record is padded to take up a fixed
size of 25 characters. To account for this use of Company Field, some changes
need to be made to its type definition by defining a pad character. By specifying a
pad character of a space (
<sp>), which will be used to pad Company to a fixed
length of 25 characters whenever Company Field is used in a fixed group.
Therefore, when Company Field is used in Record for the output, it will be
padded to 25 characters.