Re: Confused About Field Size

Jon Paris wrote:

On 9-Jan-08, at 12:52 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> If I define a field as follow:

> D FOOT_NOTES_FIELD...
> D S 65535A INZ(*BLANKS)
>
> DOW NOT %EOF(RFQFOOTNPF);
>
> FOOT_NOTES_FIELD = %TRIM(FOOT_NOTES_FIELD) + %TRIM(FOTNOTE) + '|';
> READE (RFQ# : QSTRAT_ITEM_NUMBER) RFQFOOTNPF;
>
> ENDDO;

1) Given the current field definition, the second %TRIM is a waste of time and the spaces removed will immediately be reinserted when the resulting string is shorter than the max length.

I think both trims might be required, but it depends on whether or not the trailing blanks are important in the target file format.

Suppose the file is looks like
RFQ# ITEMNUMBER FOTNOTE
1 1 'A '
1 1 'BC'
1 1 'D '

If RFQ# = (ITEMNUMBER = 1), with second %TRIM() we'd have FOOT_NOTES_FIELD = 'A|BC|D ... ', but without the second %TRIM(), we'd have FOOT_NOTES_FIELD = 'A |BC|D ... ' (where ... represents a whole lot of blank spaces).