RE: %CHAR()

["Westdorp, Tom" <tom.westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This certainly seems to be an error to me, and it is the source of a lot of
remaining MOVE and/or XLATE statements in otherwise all eval form code.
This surely does not improve readability to anyone's eye, although it does
require some documentation in the form "Do NOT change the following MOVE(s)
to Eval's or necessary leading 0's will be lost."

Tom Westdorp
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-----Original Message-----
From: M. Lazarus [mailto:mlazarus@ttec.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 4:10 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: %CHAR()


Ken,

At 11/17/00 12:16 PM -0800, you wrote:

>Remove the blanks of with %trim
>
>%trim(%char(xxxxx))
>
>or
>
>%trim(%editc(xxxxx:yyy))
>
>or
>
>%trim(%editw(xxxxx:yyyy))


  There's no need to do that.  These BIFs do it for you already.

  -mark

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