Re: Removing blanks from a varning length field.

[Rishi Seth <rishiseth99@xxxxxxxxx>]

För substring also it shows same as 'RISHIbbbbb' where as it's defined as
varying only,now tell me?

b-means blanks here.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 19:42 Hiebert, Chris <chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> --But it does not seem to be working please refer below code :-
> --     dv1               s             10
> --     dv2               s              5
> --     dSUBSTRING        s             10    VARYING
> --when we debug it shows value of v1 as 'RISHIBBBB'
> --So neither trim nor trimr even substring also does not seem to work as
> it shows substring value as 'RISHIBBBBB'
> --B---Means blanks.
> -- Rishi Seth
>
>
> In your example only "SUBSTRING" is defined as varying.
> V1 and V2 are both defined as CHAR.
> So they will always be padded with blanks to the defined lengths.
>
> Chris Hiebert
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
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