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  3. October 2002

Re: Concatenate text + numeric

Barbara Morris <bmorris=G1DYhSM1WHTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> helped
spread the news by saying:

> Dave wrote:
>>
>> I need to combine an alpha field with a numeric field to create a
>> single alpha-numeric field (makes sense) like thus:
>>
>>     Alpha = "XX"
>>    Number = 01234
>>
>> When I use the statement
>>
>>       EVAL   AlphaNum = Alpha + %char(Number)
>>
>> I end up with AlphaNum = "XX 1234".  I've tried
>>
>
> Dave, try
>
>       EVAL   AlphaNum = %trim(Alpha) + %char(Number)
>


Barbara -

        Wouldn't this would give me "XX1234 " ?  That wouldn't be what I'm
looking for.



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