Re: Weird behavior of a TRIML instruction

"James H H Lampert" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.mi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I wrote:
> Would anybody have any idea why
> 
> TRIML FOO, BAR, ' ';
> 
> where BAR is CHAR(475) and FOO is BIN(4,0), and BAR 
> contains 5 EBCDIC digit characters followed by 470 blank 
> spaces,
> 
> would return 475, instead of just 5?

<Emily Litella voice>
nevermind
</Emily Litella Voice>

Blame the verstenken OPM debugger, defaulting to only the 
first 200 characters of a string variable: there WAS 
garbage on the end, because I'd expanded the variable 
(it's a general purpose string variable) without adjusting 
the code that clears the tail end of it.

--
JHHL
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