RE: [EXTERNAL] Example of right justifying a character field.

[Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why on earth would you do all that manipulation when a simple opcode does the job?

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power


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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Example of right justifying a character field.

On 2/14/23 1:10 PM, Gerald Magnuson wrote:
> you may also need %trimr   as in:
>
> evalr  big_var =  %trimr(small_var) ;


I would argue that %TRIMR (or even just %TRIM) is more important than 
EVALR. You can do without the latter by checking lengths and explicitly 
adding padding on the left.

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JHHL