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  3. September 2009

Re: substr bif question

Documentation is good, but you can test these things yourself with a short test program - just focus on the issue - do the comparison with both padded and non-padded values, see if your results are the same. The length doesn't have to be great - 10 character variables ought to be enough.

Vern

David FOXWELL wrote:
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Note that you do not need to specify trailing blanks in a
string comparison.
'A' is equal to 'A ' all day long from that perspective.

I didn't realise that, thanks. Before I tell that to my colleagues, anyone know where that is documented?

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