Re: To trim or not to trim?

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think that either of the trims with %Char should be needed - or at the most they would only need to be %TrimL. %Char will always strip leading zeros.

It occurs to me having written that that if leading zeros are significant in plretailer or pltransnum - then this code may not be doing what you want. (Says he who discovered the hard way that US zip codes can start with zeros ... bloody silly idea ... mutter mutter ....


On 2014-01-15, 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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