RE: How to place null characters in a record

How about just:

  dbfield = %trim(dbfield) + *ALLx'00';


Charles Wilt
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Paul,

you could try this:

     d workField       s           1000a   inz

      /free
      
        workField = *allx'00';
        dbField = %trim(dbField) + workField;
      /end-free

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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We have a file which is 4000 bytes long and contains just one field
(X(4000)). I would appreciate any suggestions  for how to place null
characters (Hex '00') in all the unused bytes after the data. 
Ideally in
RPG but Cobol would be ok. 


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