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Francis Mariani
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I can't get hard concatenation working with the FPRINT function - leading blanks are not suppressed. Any ideas?

Here's an example fex:

SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY
SET HOLDFORMAT=ALPHA

FILEDEF HSALES DISK BASEAPP/HSALES.TXT
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
COMPUTE TEST/A100 = '"' || 
COUNTRY || '","' || 
FPRINT(SALES,'I6','A6') || '","' || 
MODEL;
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
BY MODEL NOPRINT
ON TABLE HOLD AS HSALES
END

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Francis Mariani
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I found an old post where I suggest using TRIM around a function that outputs alpha data:

SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY
SET HOLDFORMAT=ALPHA

FILEDEF HSALES DISK BASEAPP/HSALES.TXT
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
COMPUTE TEST/A100 = '"' || 
COUNTRY || '","' || 
TRIM('L',FPRINT(SALES,'I6','A6'),6,' ',1,'A6') || '","' || 
MODEL;
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
BY MODEL NOPRINT
ON TABLE HOLD AS HSALES
END


Francis


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Waz
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LJUST would also work.

Hard concatenation only works on trailing spaces.


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