Re: Scanning from the right

[cmassoglia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles L. Massoglia)]

Rick and John,

You want to use %len(%trimR(field)).  %trim would trim off any leading blanks.
>
>look at the CHECKR opcode. With a search argument of ' ', it checks
>for the first position that DOESN'T contain the search argument.
>
>also, in rpgiv, %len(%trim(field)) will return the last non-blank
>position in a string.
>
>hth,
>
>Rick
>
>John Earl wrote:
>> 
>> Is it possible to scan a string from the right in RPG?
>> 
>> I need to find the end of a character string that may have
>> embedded blanks in it.  It seems like the best way to do
>> that is to scan from the right for the first non-blank
>> character.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> jte
>> 
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