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Thanks for the reply, but I don't think that this logic would work for the following scenario
1 line A
2
3 line B
4
5 line X
6 line E
The 6th occurrence would remain , when the end result that is wanted is
1 line A
2 line B
3 line X
4 line E

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:00 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Filling an array from the first occurrence on down

try this:

D lineDS ds

D line 30 dim(6) ctdata



D ix s 5i 0



/free



for ix = %elem(line) downto 1;

if line(ix) = *blank;

lineDS = %replace('' :lineDS :(ix-1)*%size(line)+1 :%size(line));
endif;

endfor;

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