You can use any of the following characters to create a format expression for strings:

CharacterDescription
@Character placeholder. Display a character or a space. If the string has a character in the position where the at symbol (@) appears in the format string, display it; otherwise, display a space in that position. Placeholders are filled from right to left unless there is an exclamation point character (!) in the format string.
&Character placeholder. Display a character or nothing. If the string has a character in the position where the ampersand (&) appears, display it; otherwise, display nothing. Placeholders are filled from right to left unless there is an exclamation point character (!) in the format string.
<Force lowercase. Display all characters in lowercase format.
>Force uppercase. Display all characters in uppercase format.
!Force left to right fill of placeholders. The default is to fill placeholders from right to left.