Re: justifying a character variable

Joe, I believe Lynette said she was using non-ILE RPG (OPM), which doesn't have 
eval,
%scan, etc.  My answer was written using OPM RPG.

With ILE RPG (RPG IV), she could use a single statement:

evalr OutputField = %trimr(InputField)

Mel Rothman


Joe Sarnowski wrote:
> 
> Here's another way to right justify a character field.  In this example, I'm
> moving a 7 character field (wkfld = '12345  ') to another 7 character field
> (svfld = '  12345').
> 
> D wkfld                       s                        7        inz('12345
> ')
> D svfld                         s                        7
> D ctr                            s                        3   0
> 
> C                               eval                ctr = %scan(' ': wkfld)
> C                               if                    ctr > 0 and ctr < 8
> C                               eval                svfld = %replace(wkfld:
> svfld:
> C                                                        9 - (%scan(' ':
> wkfld)))
> C                               else
> C                               eval                 svfld = wkfld
> C                               endif
> 
> This code will check for at least 1 character in the 1st field, then moves
> it to the 2nd field, else it just moves the entire 1st field to the 2nd.
> 
> Joe Sarnowski
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mel Rothman <melrothman@home.com>
> To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: justifying a character variable
> 
> > Lynette, here's a sample RPG/400 program.  Subroutine JUST right justifies
> data
> > that were left justified in 9 byte character field C9.  Most of the
> program is
> > written to test the subroutine.
> >
> >       * NO BYTES
> >      C                     MOVE *BLANKS   C9      9
> >      C                     EXSR JUST
> >       * ONE BYTE
> >      C                     MOVE *BLANKS   C9
> >      C                     MOVEL'N'       C9
> >      C                     EXSR JUST
> >       * FOUR BYTES
> >      C                     MOVE *BLANKS   C9
> >      C                     MOVEL'NAME'    C9
> >      C                     EXSR JUST
> >       * EIGHT BYTES
> >      C                     MOVE *BLANKS   C9      9
> >      C                     MOVEL'NAMENAME'C9
> >      C                     EXSR JUST
> >       * NINE BYTES
> >      C                     MOVE *BLANKS   C9      9
> >      C                     MOVEL'NAMENAME'C9
> >      C                     MOVE 'N'       C9
> >      C                     EXSR JUST
> >      C                     SETON                     LR
> >       *************************************************
> >      C           JUST      BEGSR
> >       *************************************************
> >      C           ' '       CHEKRC9        I       30
> >      C           I         IFGT 0
> >      C           9         SUB  I         I
> >      C           ' '       CAT  C9:I      C9
> >      C                     ENDIF
> >      C                     ENDSR
> >
> > Mel Rothman
> > +---
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