RE: Triming CL stings?

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