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Hi Thomas -

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:59:51 +0000, Thomas Raddatz
<thomas.raddatz@xxxxxx> wrote:

I do not agree, that people need to move there varying fields to fix-length fields when they do not want to care about the length. The question is not whether they care for the length, but whether they care for trailing spaces. If I do not care about trailing spaces, then I have to trim my fields according to my needs. That is what people have to do for almost every programming language.

Valid point. %trimr would be far the better option.

I agree, that the compiler works as designed regarding to the documentation. But it works different from the other compilers that I know. Fields whose contents have a different lengths cannot be equal. Whether or not the content are spaces, does not matter.

On that basis, %trimr would be needed any time that two fixed-length
fields are being compared that are not the same length. Likewise,
%trimr would be needed when comparing a field to a constant that is
not the length of the length of the field (unless the constant is
going to be padded with the needed trailing spaces to make the lengths
match).

RPG is what it is, and changing the default behavior (even just for
varying fields) would break lots of code. I suppose it could be an
enhancement activated by an H-spec option.

Or just wait about 16 months until I'm retired, and then I won't care
what is done to the compiler or any other part of the IBM i.

Ken
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