Re: simple problem with string handling

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 at 11:25:16, dale janus <dalejanus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You need to trim the target string i.e.

C EVAL cutalpha = %TrimR(cutalpha) + dblqut

But really you would be better off in terms of code speed and clarity of code if you were to make ctalpha a varying length field. Or at least build the string in a varying length field and then copy to cutalpha.

That would let you code:

C EVAL cutalpha = cutalpha + dblqut
and
C EVAL cutalpha = cutalpha + %Trimr(newData)

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.

Jon Paris

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