Re: To trim or not to trim?

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

just a note ... you do not need the %trim around the %char BIF. %char
already returns a trimmed result.

-Steve



On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:34 PM, William Howie <
William.Howie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Charles/Kurt/Buck,
>
> I was able to get it to work.   Basically I think it was a hybrid of all
> the solutions.   Here's the code:
>
> wmctl# = %trim(%char(plretailer)) + '-' +  %trim(plregister:'0 ') +  '-' +
> %trim(%char(pltransnum));
>
> I think what was throwing me was the fact that I was at one point running
> it with the "pltransnum" field not on there,  because I wasn't seeing the
> third field with it in the code, so I started working backward, eliminating
> things to see what it would do.  So at one point the statement ended with
> appending the second dash, and I wasn't seeing the second dash.    So
> that's what got me wondering.  Anyway, it's working now.   Thanks for the
> help guys!!
>
> Bill Howie
> Software Developer
> AmTrust North America
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