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Re: STRTRIM needs improvement [message #3572 is a reply to message #3567]

Tue, 21 February 1995 04:43

zawodny
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Registered: August 1992

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In article <3i5ni5$i3t@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov> mallozzi@ssl.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
>
> Dear RSI,
> Is it possible to improve STRTRIM so that I can do
> STRTRIM(x, F='(f5.2)', 2)
> instead of
> STRTRIM(STRING(x, F='(f5.2)'), 2)
> I often use the latter construction in widget programming so that
> displayed values have a nice format.

Hear, hear! I find myself doing this all the time. This does, however, turn
STRTRIM into something other than a "string trimmer". Perhaps it might be more
appropriate to add the leading/trailing blank elimination function to STRING
instead.

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