Fixed length concatenation

Hi,
I am working on a scenario wherin i have to concatenate fields(around 30) on the source side and map it to a single target field.I have to map it as a fixed length i.e., if a field on the source side is of length 10 and if we pass only 5 characters, the remaining 5 plsces should be spaces and the next field should start from the 11th position as shown below
source        data                           target              concat data(with spaces)
filed1(10)       abcd                            field                    abcd      123
field2(5)         123
Can any one please help me in solving this.
Thanks,
Vikram

Hi,
UDF can be used to solve your problem. A UDF can hold 20 input fields. So, you have to use 3 UDFs. In the First two UDF, you can concatenate the input fields and also check for the spaces. In third UDF, you will be concatenating the Output of First two UDF.
Concatenation can be done as : String3 = String2 + String1 in the UDFs.
I hope this would solve your problem.
Regards,
Rahul

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