Need a line feed after 120 characters in a text file

Hi ,
I am in the verge of developing a report program which generates a text file (space delimited) for a third party vendor -
After 80 characters (name field) - I need to have space till 120th position in the record and then the cursor should navigate to the
the next line (line feed) in the text file-
I used several techniques but couldn't succeed u2013 Since there is no characters after 80th position the cursor navigates to the next line or record in the text file u2013 Can anyone help on this regard?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Rajesh.

Rajesh,
Insteadof differentiating the fields in the text file with SPACE use # or @ as separator and then check by defining a field with length 40 and leave it blank.
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