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The TRIMLEN function determines the length of a character string excluding trailing spaces.
TRIMLEN (string)
where:
Alphanumeric
Is the string to be measured.
TRIMLEN determines the length of a field in COUNTRY excluding trailing blanks:
MAINTAIN FILE CAR
MODULE IMPORT (MNTUWS)
NEXT COUNTRY INTO STK1
COMPUTE LEN/I3 = LENGTH(STK1(1).COUNTRY);
COMPUTE LEN2/I3 = TRIMLEN(STK1(1).COUNTRY);
TYPE "<STK1(1).COUNTRY HAS A LENGTH OF <LEN2 WITHOUT TRAILING BLANKS"
END
The result is:
ENGLAND HAS A LENGTH OF 7 WITHOUT TRAILING BLANKS
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