Re: [EXT] Re: Need to replace hex zeroes in a CL variable -- MIDRANGE-L

Danny,

The reason it did not work is that *NULL in CL is NOT a special value. CL viewed *NULL as '*NULL'. IOW, it saw it as a 5 character constant string.

If you don't want to hardcode the hex 00 in the comparison, define a "null variable":

DCL &Null *CHAR 1 x'00'

-mark

On 11/26/2019 3:45 PM, Danny Hayes wrote:

Larry,

It accepted *NULL, but did not remove them.

Thanks,
Danny

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Try the special value *NULL

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On 11/26/2019 3:30 PM, Danny Hayes wrote:

First,

V7 R3 -

I have a CL program that is calling another program to get a file name. The field is 256 characters long.

It has the value for the file name and then the rest is populated with hex zeroes.

The file name is then to be used in the CPYTOIMPF command, and it chokes if there are Nulls in the file name.

I tried %TRIM with no second parm, but that only works for blanks.

I tried %Trim using the second parm, but not sure I specified it right:

VALUE(%TRIM(&FILELABEL 'X"00"')) I tried multiple times and this is the only way I got it to compile.

I initialized the fields to blanks, but when they come back to me the file name has those x'00'.

TIA,

Danny

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