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Format Left Justify Truncate Fast Function
Formats Justifies Class

Public Function FormatLeftJustifyTruncateFast( _
      ByRef vValue As Variant _
    , ByRef vFormat As String _
    , ByVal vWidth As Long _
    ) As String

Apply the Visual Basic Format function then left justify the result.
Undersized strings are right-padded with spaces to length vWidth.
Oversized strings right-truncated to length vWidth.
"Fast" function has restrictive argument types to avoid argument fix-up code.

Examples: 
    FormatLeftJustifyTruncateFast(12345, "#,##0", 10) = "12,345    "
    FormatLeftJustifyTruncateFast(12345, "#,##0",  5) = "12,34"
See also: 
    FormatLeftJustifyFast Function
    FormatRightJustifyTruncateFast Function
    Format$ Function (Visual Basic)
vValue: Value which is to formatted. The formatted result is left-justified.
vFormat: Format specification recognized by the Visual Basic Format function.
vWidth: Length to which the formatted result will be space-filled or truncated.

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