Re: trimming trailing blanks in spooled output...

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

They are not extraneous spaces if a programmer placed them theere.  The 
spooler replicates what the programmer asked for unless there is some kind 
of a mistake.

We can get extra blank line(s) any number of ways.
* Printing an explicit blank like line you said
* Calling for vertical spacing without printing any lines, then printing 
some # lines later, which causes blank lines between last explicit printing
* Keeping track of vertical placement of report in the program, by counting 
lines printed, to do some kind of vertical forms control, other than the 
standard foot of page controls

The spooler replicates the blank lines that the programmer called for.

Same thing with sideways.

Perhaps what you are asking is what happens if we make a copy of that 
report into some other venue.  We copy a lot of AS/400 reports to the PC 
world, to go into Excel for example.  Perhaps you are asking if the blank 
spaces are recognized there as blank spaces.


> "GDS" <ggarner_gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:mailman.44.1165250748.1743.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Is this a situation where you are writing a paragraph and want to
> > concatenate sentence fragments or insert variable names into the wording?
>
> Gregory,
>
> No. Perhaps I should have been more clear.
>
> For standard 132-character wide reports, I am concerned about cases where a
> programmer has done something like this:
>
> 1) writes print line that is 132 bytes of spaces in order to skip a line
> 2) writes a line of 132 characters where the first 5 (for example) are
> significant followed by 127 spaces
>
> Will the spooler on the iSeries truncate these trailing extraneous spaces?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Michael Rosinger
> Systems Programmer / DBA
> Computer Credit, Inc.
> 640 West Fourth Street
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> 336-761-1524
> m rosinger at cciws dot com
>
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