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Brad,

Actually on character fields %LEN will return the number of characters, not
the field size. To get the field size you need to use %SIZE.

-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net
[mailto:mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net]On Behalf Of
BVStone@Taylorcorp.com
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 1998 6:19 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: %TRIMR



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rbbaird [SMTP:Rbbaird@premsys.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 1998 3:22 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: %TRIMR
>
> Darlene K. Brengle wrote:
>
> >  LOCATION will have the value '  Toronto, Ontario'.
>
> >                   EVAL      LOCATION = %TRIMR('  Toronto, Ontario
> ')
>
> to right justifify, try this:
>
> c            eval     location = *blanks
> c            eval     $work = %trim('   toronto, ontario  ')
> c            eval     $start = %len(location) - %len($work) + 1
> c            eval     %subst(location:$start:$len($work)) =
> %trim($work)
>
        [Stone, Brad V (TC)]  This won't work.  %len($work) will return
the length of the field, not how many characters there are.  CHECK and
CHECKR should be used to get the starting and ending character
posistions, and then uses these to get the start posistion.

> hope this helps,
>
> rick
>
> "I'm not fat, I'm just big boned!"
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