Re: Another Concatenation Question

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ah!  I'd missed that part of the discussion.  Sorry for muddying the waters
then.


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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, October 28, 2002 03:08:28 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Another Concatenation Question

Booth,

In the particular code sample that he posted, the ONLY thing he needed
to change was to put the word "VARYING" in the keywords section of the
D-spec for the Text variable.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say about retaining the trailing
blanks, but in his particular code, there weren't any trailing blanks
that needed to be %trim()-ed. They were being added purely by the
fact that his variable was fixed-length.


On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Booth Martin wrote:
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> no no no he isn't telling you "So what you're telling me is that by

> specifying the VARYING keyword, I

> eliminate the need for the %trim BIF? Uhh... or rather, the %trimR BIF?

> Okay, I'll give THAT a shot"!

>

> You have two choices: trimming trailing blanks in a field, or not trimming

> blanks.

>

> Varying will carry the trailing blanks unless you use %TrimR. Unless of

> course the maximum size of your varying field is too short for the
combined
> fields.
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