RE: Is there a better way to add padding characters?

 

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:54 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to add padding characters?

Matt,

>"inTest" is 5 bytes long.

It is?  :)
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The part I care about is :^P

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> Here's some code I whipped up to test adding the padding (this does
work
> correctly):

>     begsr pad;
>        len = %len(%trim(inTest));

Shouldn't you use %trimR() here instead to preserve leading blanks?

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Correct. The final version will actually use variable length fields
which will eliminate the %trim().

Matt