On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 7:01 PM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 14:46:20 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: > > >Trying out Relson-style replying today: > > > It has been the classical recommendation for decades. > Ah well, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to free advice :-) > > >>"...how can I append trailing blanks to a record in an existing file ..." > >> > >Adding blanks to the end of a VB line is admittedly onerous (yet I figured > >it out in 2 minutes), ... > > > Don't keep me in suspense. What's the trick? > I entered a non-blank character out where I wanted the end of the line to be. I saved it, then deleted (or blanked maybe) the non-blank character. Saved it again, and the new longer record was preserved. It seems likely this would work for shortening too. As you probably know (esp. since you said so) you can't change the number of trailing blanks directly. It's either what's already there, or nothing. > > >... but as no one ever needs to do that, it hardly matters. > > > Until it matters. ... Admittedly, that was somewhat facetious. Nevertheless, you can try an RFE, but I'm not seeing good odds on it getting done. > > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
