Re: Moving a field and removing blanks

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that this O extender is probably not worth doing.  As others 
have pointed out, you can solve this problem using %subst or %replace, 
even if the code isn't quite as elegant as we might want.

And how often does someone need to do something like this?  I do a _ton_ 
of string manipulation of all sorts, but almost never need something 
like this where data has to be both left-justified and right-justified 
in the same field.  Indeed, I can't think of any reason why someone 
would need something like this -- although Pete obviously needs it, it 
might be the only time he ever will.

On 12/1/2010 7:50 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> I suppose there could be an extender, say O for Overlay, for EVAL and
> EVALR, not to pad the remainder with blanks.  That idea has been kicking
> around for a long time, but there is a perceived lack of general
> usefulness for this feature.  Notwithstanding this current case.