Re: My dilemma with VARYING was ->RE: Error in %trim BIF with V5R3?

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I admit I'm one of those, but trying to change.. lol..
that's normally the last thing on my mind, but I do WANT to
change that habbit...  it's almost as hard as quitting
smoking..  <smile>

But, I'm still wondering what may be going on with the
%trim bif on this other machine... why it doesn't seem to
be working.  I can't recreate it anywhere.  

Could the 'Z' in the edit code portion be causing an issue?
  Someone mentioned maybe Z wasn't Z on that machine...  I
wasn't aware you could change what edit codes meant.  :)

Brad

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:04:04 -0500
 "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joe,
> I see that casual use of %TRIM all over the place and
> people wonder why it
> doesn't work. I wish more people would habitually use
> %TrimR() and only use
> %trim() when they think about think about it first.  
> Thanks.
>
> -Bob Cozzi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:57 AM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: My dilemma with VARYING was ->RE: Error in
> %trim BIF with V5R3?
>
> Absolutely right, Bob.  I was thinking about TrimR,
> because Aaron was asking
> about trailing blanks.  I should have written:
>
> %LEN(x) = %len(%TrimR(x))
>
> Which of course works fine.  Thanks for pointing that
> out!
>
> Joe
>
> > From: Bob Cozzi
> >
> > %LEN(x) = %len(%Trim(x)) is just wrong.
>
>
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