Pad characters
A character used to fill up remaining available character spaces in a field. For example, if a field requires a minimum of 15 characters, a user may type "computerhope***", where the asterisk is the pad character. Most programs allow the pad characters to be any character. However, it is recommended that you use the same pad characters and use non-word characters, because using "e" as a pad character would make "computerhopeeee" confusing.