Re: simple problem with string handling

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try this:
C                  EVAL      cutalpha = %TrimR(cutalpha) + dblqut
You need to remove any trailing blanks on the concat.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM, dale janus <dalejanus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I am building up a character string to print.   It is a length field, so
> it may contain feet and inches, and we want to print a foot mark ' and an
> inch mark "
>
> I have these D specs:
>
>       D sngqut          C                   CONST(''' ')  yes, that's a
> space after the single quote.
>       D dblqut          C                   CONST('"')
>       D cutalpha        s             20
>
>     My eval statement works fine when the sngqut is within the initial
> creation of the string.   Once the string is created, under certain
> conditions I want to add a double quote to the end of it.
>
> This code did not work:
>
>       C                  EVAL      cutalpha = cutalpha + dblqut
>
> Ok, I figure use the old opcode
>
>
>          C     cutalpha      CAT       '"'           cutalpha
>
>          C                          CAT       dblqut        cutalpha
>
> Neither one of these works.
>
> What am I missing?  all I want to do is cat a double quote to the end of
> a string.
> ---Dale
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