Re: Right adjust zero fill character field

A quick program does confirm it works. Sorry for doubting you Chris...

Hoption(*nodebugio:*srcstmt)
d testevalr pr
d pi

d rc s 10i 0
d fielda s 20a
d fieldb s 6a
d message s 50a
* Program
Variables
********************
*
/free
*inlr = *on ;

fielda = '1234';
message = 'Fielda = ' + fielda;
Dsply message;
Evalr fieldb = '000000' + %Trim(fielda);
message = 'Fieldb = ' + fieldb;
Dsply message;

fielda = '12345';
message = 'Fielda = ' + fielda;
Dsply message;
Evalr fieldb = '000000' + %Trim(fielda);
message = 'Fieldb = ' + fieldb;
Dsply message;

Return;
/end-free

Robert Rogerson
On 2012-09-25 3:27 PM, Hiebert, Chris wrote:

You can do this without any decimal conversion.
EVALR field_b = '000000' + %TRIM(field_a);

Chris Hiebert
Programmer/Analyst
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:27 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Right adjust zero fill character field

All,
I am having a brain freeze moment today.
I have a 20 byte character field that will contain up to 6 bytes of data
left adjusted.
I need to take the data from the first field and load it to a 6 byte
field padded with leading zeros.
ie: field a = '1234 '
I want field b to be '001234'

when field a = '12345'
field b = '012345;

Thanks,


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