RE: Blank Suppress

Hans,

I remember using %TRIM() during the ESP for RPG IV and you specifically
questioning why I was using it "because it was slower" than using %TRIMR
(which was all I may have needed in the code). My take was that you wrote
%TRIMR and %TRIML and what's-his-name wrote %TRIM. You seemed to indicate
that his code wasn't very efficient. However, if I miss understood or you've
changed the %TRIM function, great!

Bob Cozzi

http://www.RPGIV.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of boldt@ca.ibm.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:24 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Blank Suppress
>
>
> Bob Cozzi wrote:
> >Yes, that would work, but
> >
> > C       eval  name = %trimR(name)
> >
> >would work too.
> >
> >I've heard from Hans that the %TRIM is less efficient that using the
> >specific TRIMR and TRIML functions. I hope he's fixed this by
> now, however.
>
> I would have missed this note if Barbara hadn't pointed it
> out to me. Oh, there it is, it just arrived in my mailbox!
>
> Hmmm, let me try to explain how the trim BIFs work.  %TRIM
> performs two tasks:  1) sloughing leading blanks; and 2)
> sloughing trailing blanks.  %TRIML and %TRIMR each perform
> only one of these two tasks.  It is obvious to me that if
> task 1 takes n units of time and task 2 takes m units of
> time, doing both would require n+m units of time.
>
> Now if you have some suggestion for a new algorithm that
> would improve the performace of %TRIM, I would be quite
> happy to consider it.
>
> Cheers!  Hans
>
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>
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