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Kartik Katyal
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I am getting the value for region in an amper variable and truncating it to remove trailing spaces.

-READ HOLD, ®ION

-SET ®ION2 = TRUNCATE(®ION);

-TYPE (®ION2.LENGTH)

-*SET ®ION2 = 'US';
-IF ®ION EQ US THEN GOTO :US ELSE IF ®ION EQ Europe THEN GOTO :EMEA ELSE IF ®ION EQ LACC THEN GOTO :LACC ELSE GOTO :JAPA;

However, it seems to have some hidden characters which is why the simplest of If condition is failing.

Length of region post truncate is always 2 more than what it should be.

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MartinY
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There is no reason that the length impact the test.
If your test fail, it's due to something else.

TABLE FILE CAR
BY COUNTRY AS 'CNTRY'
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'FRANCE';
-*WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'W GERMANY';
-*WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY';
ON TABLE HOLD AS HLD FORMAT BINARY
END
-RUN

-READFILE HLD

-IF &CNTRY EQ 'W GERMANY' THEN GOTO :US ELSE IF &CNTRY EQ FRANCE THEN GOTO :EMEA ELSE IF &CNTRY EQ ENGLAND THEN GOTO :LACC ELSE GOTO :JAPA;
-:US
-TYPE TEST RESULT = US, CNTRY: &CNTRY, CNTRY LENGTH: &CNTRY.LENGTH
-GOTO XEND;
-:EMEA
-TYPE TEST RESULT = EUROPE, CNTRY: &CNTRY, CNTRY LENGTH: &CNTRY.LENGTH
-GOTO XEND;
-:LACC
-TYPE TEST RESULT = LACC, CNTRY: &CNTRY, CNTRY LENGTH: &CNTRY.LENGTH
-GOTO XEND;
-:JAPA
-TYPE TEST RESULT = JAPAN, CNTRY: &CNTRY, CNTRY LENGTH: &CNTRY.LENGTH

-XEND

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Squatch
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quote:
Originally posted by Kartik Katyal:

-IF ®ION EQ US...

Shouldn't "US" have single quotes around it?

Like this:

-IF ®ION EQ 'US'...


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MartinY
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It does work anyway without the quotes since there is no spaces in the tested value.

In my above sample, it won't work if I will have tested W GERMANY without quotes.


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EricH
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If you do a -TYPE on &ION and &ION.LENGTH both before and after the TRUNCATE what do you see?
 
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GavinL
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Instead of READ, have you tried READFILE.. Much easier to use and it doesn't care if your sizing if 1 byte off or not.

-READFILE HOLD
-SET &ION2 = TRUNCATE(&ION);

-TYPE (&ION2.LENGTH)

-*SET &ION2 = 'US';
-IF '&ION' EQ 'US' THEN GOTO :US ELSE IF '&ION' EQ 'Europe' THEN GOTO :EMEA ELSE IF '&ION' EQ LACC THEN GOTO :LACC ELSE GOTO :JAPA;



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j.gross
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Instead of READ, have you tried READFILE.. Much easier to use

... as long as the column and amper var names match.

I was going to suggest that, and also ask to post the HOLD MASTER file. If the HOLD data are not comma-delimited, then perhaps the comma in the -READ will result in the trailing CR LF becoming part of the value of &REGION


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