Re: Is there a better way to add padding characters? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Is there a better way to add padding characters?
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:53:44 -0400
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Matt,

>"inTest" is 5 bytes long.

It is?  :)

> Here's some code I whipped up to test adding the padding (this does work
> correctly):

>     begsr pad;
>        len = %len(%trim(inTest));

Shouldn't you use %trimR() here instead to preserve leading blanks?

Doug

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