Re: How do you move a text 30 char long to a field?

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Bob wrote:
>...
>But what would be on my wish list, is to enhance the %TRIMx() built-in
>functions to support a second parameter. The second parameter would be a
>list of characters that are to be "trimmed" off the field's value.
>Today, only blanks are trimmed, it would be nice to be able to trim of
>any characters. And that second parameter should support a literal value
>or a field name containing the characters to be trimmed.

That suggestion was included in the last RPG enhancement survey.
Although it received a lot of votes, it wasn't enough to be
included in the release currently under development.  The item
will certainly still be there when (or if) we issue another
survey.  In the meantime, you can always write your own
procedure if this is the kind of thing you do a lot.  Just do a
%CHECK at the beginning of the string, a %CHECKR at the end, and
return the %SUBST of what's in between.

I like the idea that the 2nd parameter should be a list of
characters to be trimmed off.  The description of the item in
the last survey suggested that only one character could be
specified.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com