RE: right$

I'm lazy and absent minded so I don't mind the work field too much.<g>  The
substring solution does do it in one line of code without an explicit work
field.  In some ways I'd prefer the work field so I could look at the code a
week later, read the comment, and understand what I was trying to do.  OTOH,
people younger and more flexible than I wouldn't have any trouble with it.
But then they wouldn't fit the profile of the RPG programmer. <g>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:08 AM
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> I was trying to avoid the 10 character work field.  The evalr solution
> requires the 10 character work field.
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> There won't be fewer than 10 non-blank characters.  This is
> checked prior
> to calling this subroutine.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
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> %trimr() followed by the evalr would do the same thing.  You
> could also
> scan
> for blanks from the right side of the field and build parms for
> substringing, but that would involve actual work.  <g>  What neets to
> happen
> if there are fewer than ten non-blank characters?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
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> > MYVAR='   thisisseveralcharacters   '
> > I want store the right 10 nonblank characters into a new variable.
> > %trim will get rid of the leading, and trailing, blanks.
> >
> > Nearest way I can figure to do this is to use a 10 character
> > field as a
> > work variable and evalr the %trim of MYVAR into this.  Any other
> > suggestions?
> >
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> > Rob Berendt
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