Removing leading spaces from veriable

[biswaranjan]

Hi,

I want to remove leading spaces from a veriable.In PL1 how I can do that?

Ex: A= ' A BC'

I want O/P as 'A BC'

Regards
Biswa.

[MikeJ024]

hi,
you can use the substr builtin function to do this as follows using your example above:
a = substr(a,2,4);
substr(variable,starting pos, length)
if you have a variable # of leading spaces add the verify fuction as follows:
a = substr(a,verify(a,' '),4) this will find the first nonblank char.
hope this helps
MikeJ024

[biswaranjan]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Biswa.

[JSchmitt]

hi,
you can use the substr builtin function to do this as follows using your example above:
a = substr(a,2,4);
substr(variable,starting pos, length)
if you have a variable # of leading spaces add the verify fuction as follows:
a = substr(a,verify(a,' '),4) this will find the first nonblank char.
hope this helps
MikeJ024

If you are using Enterprise PL/1 for z/OS, you may have a look to the TRIM builtin function.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt