Data Transformation Engine Type Designer Reference Guide

Chapter 5 - Item Properties Number Item Subclass Properties
Type the pad character symbol between angled brackets < > in the Value field or
click
(browse) to display the Symbols dialog box to insert any non-printable
value.
For example, to enter a FormFeed value for the pad character, in the Value field
enter
<FF> or click (browse) to select the FF (FormFeed) symbol from the
Symbols dialog box.
Pad > Padded to
Use the Pad > Padded to property to define whether the data item is padded to
a fixed size or to the minimum content size defined for that data item.
Property Description
Fixed size The data item is padded to a fixed size that you specify. The
item must have a value specified for the Size > Max property.
Expand this property to define a Length value.
Min Content The data is padded to the number of bytes specified as the
minimum size in the Size > Min property. This selection
presents a sub-option (CountsTowardMinContent) to count
pad characters toward the length of an object.
For any item padded to a fixed size, the item must have a value specified for the
Size > Max property and the Padded to > Length must be greater than or
equal to the Size > Max value.
Shown below are the item properties for a text item type that is padded to a
length of 6. The pad character is a space. The data is padded to six bytes. The
Padded to value is Fixed Size and the Padded to > Length value is
6. For
example, if there are only four bytes of data, then two bytes of pad character
makes the item data size equal to six bytes.