Re: Removing blanks from a varning length field.

Depends how you look at it.

The _length_ of that field determines how it will be used.

If you type this in debug:

EVAL substring:x

You'll see this:

0006C1C2 C3C4C5C6 00000000 ........ - ..ABCDEF........

Notice the '0006' at the beginning that is the length of the field - 6 bytes. Notice that after 'C6' (the 'F') the values are hex zeros. And that on the right hand side after the 'F' they show as undisplayable '...'

A straight view of the field in debug will make it look as if there are blanks - that's just the debugger being dumb and it should probably be reported as a bug or an RFE.

On Nov 18, 2019, at 2:25 PM, Rishi Seth <rishiseth99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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