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Performance wise I would expect EVALR to perform orders of magnitude faster. It can map directly to MI-level functionality.


Jon P.

P.S. To Vern - EVALR goes all the way back to V4R4



On Mar 26, 2023, at 4:13 PM, Marius le Roux <mariuslr.mlrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,

Wouldnt the RPGLE version also be faster ? skipping all the RPG / SQL
overhead (abeit smaller?)

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 10:11 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's a really simple way to do this in RPG.

EVALR.

Simply code EvalR result = shortField;

Or if shortField has trailing spaces then:

EvalR result = %TrimR(shortField);

I cannot agree with Jonathan about using SQL for tasks like this - SQL is
great for what it is designed for. Replacing a perfectly good built-in
language feature is not what it was designed for. If you need to right
adjust _within_ and SQL operation sure but ...

Just my 10 cents worth.


Jon P.

On Mar 26, 2023, at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Ball <jonball52@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tend to do all of this kind of activity in SQL whenever possible.

dcl-s char_15 char(15);
dcl-s char_30 char(30);
dcl-s char_7 char(7) inz('STUFF'); // char_7 = 'STUFF '

exec sql
set :char_15 = lpad(rtrim(:char_7), length(:char_15)); // char_15 =
' STUFF'

exec sql
set :char_30 = hex(:char_15); // char_30 =
'40404040404040404040E2E3E4C6C6'

In find SQL built-in functions intuitively easier to understand and
simpler to use than equivalent RPGLE BIFs, and there aren't always
equivalents.

On 2/14/2023 1:04 PM, dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
What is a good and simple way to right justify a character field?


I would not like to use a do loop to do this.


Thanks


Darryl Freinkel

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