How to assign NULL to a veriable throgh TRANSLATE in PL/I

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biswaranjan
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How to assign NULL to a veriable throgh TRANSLATE in PL/I

Post by biswaranjan » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:35 am

Hi,

I want to replace value of a particular column with a NULL character, not space.

A = 50?th Anniversary.

B = TRANSLATE(A,'','?'); is converting the O/P as "50 th Anniversary".
A space is being inserted.


Output I want as A = 50th Anniversary
No space inbetween 50 and th.

Please guide me on this and let me know how to acheive it in TRANSLATE command.

Regards,
Biswa.

MikeJ024
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Post by MikeJ024 » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:13 am

hi, can't be done with the translate command as translate only does a 1 to 1 replacement. However you can fix it with the SUBSTR parm as follows:
A = SUBSTR(A,1,2)||SUBSTR(A,4,14); this will delete the 'not' symbol out of the variable. Hope this helps.

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