RE: Triming CL stings?

["Wintermute, Sharon" <Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne, 

Did you try: 

(' ' *BCAT &MYSTRING)   ?

I think this is what he meant. 


Sharon 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:44 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Triming CL stings?

I tried it too and you're right, it doesn't work.  I could have sworn 
that I had used this construct in the past, but I guess not.  Sorry if I

misled.

Vern Hamberg wrote:
> I just tried the leading blanks suggestion - it did not remove leading

> blanks.
>
> Wayne McAlpine wrote:
> > Use the *TCAT operator to build your string.  It removes trailing
blanks
> > and concatenates two strings. *BCAT concatenates and adds a single 
> > blank between the strings. To remove leading blanks: (' ' *TCAT 
> > &MYSTRING)
> >
> >
> > daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >  
> > > Is it possible to trim leading and/or trailing blanks from strings 
> > > in  CLP or CLLE programs?  I've got a legacy CLP program that builds

> > > string to do the selection of an open query file.  It's a this or 
> > > that test and I'm trying to build another string to concatenate into

> > > the middle of it with a more complex condition.  I don't have a 
> > > problem with the logic, just formatting the string to remove 
> > > excessive blanks.  Is this possible?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave Parnin
> > >