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Subject:
COBOL : Removing trailing spaces ?
From:
"Rao, Raghu" <[log in to unmask]>
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Rao, Raghu
Date:
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:11:45 -0400
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Hi all,

I am having 2 fields WS-FIRSTNAME and WS-LASTNAME. The data in them contains
"JOE              " and "SMITH               "

How do I get my final output to be "JOE SMITH" ?

Any suggestions through INSPECT or EXAMINE or REPLACE SPACES BY NULLS, etc ?
? ? I don't want to use any loop to search each and every field position for
spaces or anything like that..

The data in these 2 fields is left justified but can contain any names and
may not always look like the example provided above. It can also contain
special names like "JOE SR.          " or JOE III           "

Thanks
Raghu.

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