RE: %trim

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

So does that mean %trim() should be a candidate to be moved to the MI
level (or whatever that means in today's world)? Like had been down with
other things that just couldn't perform any better that they were at the
"above MI level".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Hans Boldt
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:46 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: %trim
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> Bob Cozzi wrote:
> > Do you mean that because a VARYING field is usually set to a length
> > that is at or close to the same length of the data, that
> the result is
> > that %trim has to do less work and therefore finishes quicker
> > (typically) than when it works with a fixed length field?
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> Since %TRIM() is often used to determine the length of a
> string, and since varying length variables hold the actual
> length, %TRIM() is generally unnecessary when doing string
> operations on varying length values.
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> (BTW, I'm sure it would be possible to improve the performance of
> %TRIM() for the worst cases, with some degradation of
> performance for the best cases.  But you'd *never* get to the
> same level of performance that you'd get by using varying
> length character variables.)
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> Hans
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