That's what I'd do. Look from the end back for space and use
reference modification to move the parts into a single field.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rao, Raghu [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: COBOL : Removing trailing spaces ?
>
>
> 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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