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I think we are agreeing violently, James! I guess I kind of assume the %trim[r] implicitly.

On to other mysteries, eh?

Cheers
Vern

On 2/15/2023 11:09 AM, James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L wrote:
On 2/14/23 3:29 PM, VERNON HAMBERG Owner via RPG400-L wrote:
Nothing wrong with EVALR that I can see - it's use, though - FOO is a
fixed-length variable, so all those trailing blanks are part of it -
you are trying to right-justify a 50-char value into a 50-char
variable - and that is what you get.

That was exactly my point in constructing the example: if you don't trim
off any trailing blanks, then EVALR is not going to quad it all the way
to the right.

--
JHHL



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