Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 13, Issue 525 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Yep, Eric - I shoulda mentioned both posts.

I was just responding to the unnecessary (in my mind) idea of going into RPG when he already had a couple SQL-only solutions.

Cheers
Vern

On 4/7/2014 4:52 PM, DeLong, Eric wrote:

My reply also had a function in SQL to reformat the field data...

I guess I'm still not sure what problem Buzz needs to solve.

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 13, Issue 525

Buzz

One of the other replies gives you a solution without going to RPG - I
think - the one with the REPEAT function.

That one gets the length of the fully-trimmed value and uses that to get
the number of leading blanks you need.

Good luck!
Vern

On 4/7/2014 3:17 PM, Buzz Fenner wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:50:41, Eric DeLong wrote:

How did you define "field"? If it is NOT varchar (or DDS Varying), then

the trim will be ineffective, due to >the fixed length default behavior of
padding blanks.

Hmm, unfortunately it's not Varying so I may have to resort to a small rpg
program where I can get the data into a varying field and do the string
manipulation.

Thanks...

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