RE: Trimming in CL

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I decided that writing and RPG program would be the best route. Works good.


Mike Wills
iSeries Programmer
mnwills@taylorcorp.com
(507) 386-3187


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:11 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Trimming in CL



Mike,

in what context do you want to use the result?  *CATing to another string?
I'm not sure it's possible or practical to do so in cl.  I would create a
generic rpg program that concatonates parm1 with parm2 giving parm3, and
wrap it in a command that allows return a return variable value for parm3.
by wrapping it in a command, you don't have to worry about the length of
your variables - as long as the command and the rpg pgm match, the CL var
lengths are less than or equal to that.

hth,

rick


----- original message-------
I need to be able to trim out the spaces of a field in a CL program. Is
there a way to do this? Or will it be best to use an RPG program?


Mike Wills
iSeries Programmer
mnwills@taylorcorp.com
(507) 386-3187

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