characterFiller

• global property

• new in 1.40

• The characterFiller global property is used to fill in the space as needed when something is put into a non-existent character location beyond the current end of some text. The default value is “.” (a period).

• Examples: +

   set the characterFiller to "+"
  put empty into foo
  put "X" into char 5 of foo
  put foo —> ++++X

• Related: wordFiller, lineFiller