RE: Varying .vs. %Trim (Was: Justa note of thanks)

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Given:
lib = 'MYLIB'
file = 'MYFILE'
mbr = 'MYMBR'

Both examples would produce:
'MYLIB/MYFILE( MYMBR )'

Trim is not really implied, it is a different type of string.  One that stores 
the length of the string so it knows where it ends.

The difference is, if I say with a varying field lib:
C       Eval      lib = 'MYLIB'
then lib has the value of 'MYLIB'.

If, I say with a 10 length string:
C       Eval      lib = 'MYLIB'
then lib has the value of 'MYLIB     '

Regards,

Jim Langston

From: "Fisher, Don" <Dfisher@roomstoreeast.com>
So the %TRIM is implied when concatenating fields into a VARYING field?

Suppose I change your example to:
qualname = lib + ' / ' + file + '( ' + mbr + ' )' or
qualname = lib + '/' + file + '(' + ' ' + mbr + ' ' + ')'

Would the spaces remain in the concatenated string in either example?