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Can you make use of the 'trim on passing' option (option(*TRIM) on the 
parameter definition)?  I think it started with V5R3.

rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/06/2006 07:57:00 AM:

CatPath += ('cat=' + %char(CatArr(i)) + '&');

I like using this syntax along with VARYING fields (for all of the 
obvious
reasons), but the thing I struggle with is when I need to be ensured 
that
something does not have trailing blanks (e.g. concatenating a IFS stream
file path). This seems to be the case more often than not.  A lot 
(nearly
all) of my development is done with RPG ILE service program sub procs. 
So I
am constantly providing interfaces to other programmers.  I am not so
worried about them implementing the interface correct (i.e. using 
VARYING in
their programs), but more so that they aren't ensuring the absence of 
blanks
in strings before they pass them on to sub procs I create. Sure I could 
just
insert a few more %TRIM's here and there to bullet proof my programs, 
but
then I just lost some of the benefit I was trying to gain.



Just wondering what other's thoughts are on this matter.

Aaron Bartell

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