RE: (no subject)

Cool, now we just need to know if %trimL maps to that MI instruction,
and if it does not, then we can do performance tests to see which one is
faster.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Tom Daly
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: (no subject)
>
>
> Just for kicks I did some digging.  Check out the
> triml mbr in qsysinc/mih.  I don't have any
> performance numbers but if you want to trim off a
> trailing character X you could use this and then
> %substr.
>
> Example code down & dirty... but it works.
>
> H   DFTACTGRP(*NO) ACTGRP('QILE')
>
> H   BNDDIR('QC2LE' : 'QUSAPIBD')
>
> FQPRINT    O    F   80        PRINTER
>
> F                                     OFLIND(*IN99)
>
>  *
>
> D triml           PR            10i 0 ExtProc('triml')
>
> D                                 *   Value
> options(*string)
> D                                1    value
>                     char to trim
>  *
>
> D STR1            C                   'A test string
> w/blanks         '
> D STR2            C                   'String with
> lots of punctuation!!!!-
> D                                     !!!!!!!'
>
>  *
>
> D TrimLen         S             10i 0
>
>  *
>
> C                   EVAL      TrimLen = triml(str1 : '
> ')
> C                   EXCEPT    EX0010
>
>  *
>
> C                   EVAL      TrimLen = triml(str2 :
> '!')
> C                   EXCEPT    EX0010
>
>  *
>
> C                   EVAL      *INLR = *ON
>
>  *
>
> OQPRINT    E            EX0010         1
>
> O                       TrimLen
>
>
>
> Output:
> File  . . . . . :   QPRINT
> Control . . . . .
> Find  . . . . . .
> *...+....1....+....2....+....3....
> 0000000022
> 0000000031
>
>  |  -----Original Message-----
>  |  From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
>  |  Subject: RE: %trim
>  |
>  |  Also, when will you add the second parameter to
> %TRIM/R/L
>  |  that supports
>  |  a character string value, so we can trim off more
> than just blanks?
>
>
>
>  |  So does that mean %trim() should be a candidate to
> be moved
>  |  to the MI
>  |  level (or whatever that means in today's world)?
>
>
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