Re: Right adjust zero fill character field

It actually works... What you described, Vern, is the norrmal EVAL; Chris said EVALR...

Thank you
Florin Todor
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:52 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Right adjust zero fill character field

I don't think that will work - it puts 6 zeroes ahead of the trimmed
value - OP wants the result to be 6 long, so a %subst of '000000' of
length equal to the length of a %triml of leading zeroes of fielda is
needed - hope I described that closely enough

Vern

On 9/25/2012 2:27 PM, Hiebert, Chris wrote:

You can do this without any decimal conversion.
EVALR field_b = '000000' + %TRIM(field_a);

Chris Hiebert
Programmer/Analyst
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:27 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Right adjust zero fill character field

All,
I am having a brain freeze moment today.
I have a 20 byte character field that will contain up to 6 bytes of data
left adjusted.
I need to take the data from the first field and load it to a 6 byte
field padded with leading zeros.
ie: field a = '1234 '
I want field b to be '001234'

when field a = '12345'
field b = '012345;

Thanks,


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Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
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