RE: Concatenate two strings spacing issue

Douglas,
That first line should have read:

" I'm trying to understand why %TRIMR(str50) would NOT have worked for you in
the past?:

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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:13 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Concatenate two strings spacing issue

Hi Douglas,
I'm trying to understand why %TRIMR(str50) would have worked for you in the
past?
Where you doing something like this?
eval  str = %TrimR(str50) + str10
That should work. But of course the leading blanks in str10 (if any) would still
exist.

If you wanted to do a "*BCAT" then something like this would be needed:

eval str = %TrimR(str50) + ' ' + %TrimL(str10)


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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:57 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Concatenate two strings spacing issue

I got it Scott, I know I sometimes drive you absolutely crazy and I 
apologize....but your right on this one.  Thanks


On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:50:29 -0500 (CDT), Scott Klement wrote

EVAL       NewString = %trim(String50) + String10

Don't use the CAT op-code.  Granted, 1991 was a great year.  I met 
my wife that year!  But it's over, move on.

---
Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Douglas W. Palme wrote:

I know that I can easil concatenate two strings with the CAT function,
however is there a way to eliminate any excess spacing?

In this particular case I have two strings which are 50 and 10 char in
length respectively.....I am concatenating the 10 char to the end of the 

50

but there are times where the 50 char string does not have anywhere 

close to

50 and I'd like to strip out those spaces if possible.

I have tried using the trimR and TRIML functions but that did not seem to
help.....

Suggestions?


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