Re: Testing for first non-blank character

C            ' '         CHECK    JDEDTA       X

If X > 0, X contains the position of the FIRST non-blank character in the
field JDEDTA.

C            ' '         CHEKR    JDEDTA       X

As a side note, CHEKR will find the LAST non-blank character in a field.


>Does anybody have a brilliant little piece of RPGIII code to test for the
>first non-blank character in a right-justified (sorry, JDE stuff) character
>field so that I can substring from that position to the end of the field?  I
>really don't want to use a data structure and test each character if I don't
>have to... I have my pride <g>.
>
>TIA
>


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net


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