Re: %trim blanks or nulls?

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

How much more efficient though, because the %trimL would be done processing
immediately upon finding index 1 of the string is not one of the trim
values.  Are we talking 1/100th of a nano second?  (obviously it is relative
to your computing power)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:04 AM, <Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes it would be...
>
> I %Trim() does both %TrimL() and %TrimR().  Therefore, a %TrimR() would be
> more efficient.
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> Michael Schutte
> Admin Professional
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> rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/30/2008 11:02:41 AM:
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> > Thanks all.  Barbara's code did the trick.
> >
> > If does lead me to another question on %trim, %trimr. If you know
> > for sure the field is left justified and you want to trim off
> > trailing blanks, is using %trimr more efficient than %trim? They
> > would both have the same results. I tend to always user %trim for
> everything
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:35 AM
> > To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: %trim blanks or nulls?
> >
> > Mike Cunningham wrote:
> > > Does the %trim bif look for just blanks (hex 40) or does it also trim
> > > nulls (hex 00) I have two 15 character fields. One is coming from a
> > > database, one is passed as a parameter. Both contain an IP address
> > > (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd). In the database field the trailing characters are
> > > always spaces if the ipaddress is not the full 15 characters. The
> > > parameter being passed will sometimes end in spaces and sometimes end
> > > in nulls (hex '00'). I did a compare using... If %trim(dbfield) <>
> > > %trim(parameter); And when the parameter field ended in hex 00 the if
> > > was evaluated as true.
> >
> > You can trim any combination of blanks or nulls if you use the second
> > parameter of %trim.
> >
> >      If %trimr(dbfield) <> %trimr(parameter : ' ' + x'00');
> >
> > If parameter = 'a.b.c.d   ' or 'a.b.c.dnnnnn' or even a mixture of
> > blanks an nulls like 'a.b.c.dn nn n   ', the result of the second %trimr
> > of parameter would be 'a.b.c.d'.  (where n = null)
> >
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