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Actually, this isn't true. Excel doesn't care about trailing blanks as long as you're not trying to compare the column against another column that does not have them. In this case, the reluts will not match. On 9/26/05, Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Excel doesn't care about the trailing blanks - is there another reason you > need to eliminate them? > > Francis Lapeyre > > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Titus Kruse > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:59 AM > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: CPYTOIMPF and trailing blanks on numeric fields > > Hi! > > How can I trim trailing blanks on numeric fields written by CPYTOIMPF? I > want to convert data from a DDS described physical file to a standard > CSV-file. The fields in the physical file are packed decimal. Trailing > blanks on character fields can be trimmed by defining character fields > with > keyword VARLEN. But this is not allowed for numeric fields. Is there maybe > an edit code in DDS for numeric fields or any other solution? I don't want > to convert them in RPG. > > Titus > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, > unsubscribe, > or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a > moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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