RE: justifying a character variable

["Lynette Chronister" <lchronis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

THANKS Barbara, this definately helped.  

Lynette

>>> bmorris@ca.ibm.com 01/16/01 02:56PM >>>

>Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:30:55 -0500
>From: "Lynette Chronister" <lchronis@MasonicHomesPA.org>
>
>thanks for your help buck, i will try this.

Lynette, I can't help fiddling with this ... It's fun
sometimes to deal with the challenges set by the
restrictions of RPG III.

I figured out a way to right-justify in RPG/400 without
hard-coding the variable length and without declaring a
temporary of the full length of the value being justified.
This version only requires a 1-byte temporary.

C                     MOVE CHAR1     LAST    1
C           LAST      IFEQ ' '
 * If not blank, it's already right-justified.
 * Calculate the total length of the field and
 * the length of the data
C           'x'       CHEKRCHAR1     TOTLEN  30
C           ' '       CHEKRCHAR1     DTALEN  30
 * Calculate the number of blanks at the beginning
C           TOTLEN    SUB  DTALEN    BLK     30
 * Right-justify
C           ' '       CAT  CHAR1:BLK CHAR1
C                     ENDIF

Barbara Morris


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