Re: How to remove preceding blanks?

bru <bru@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

How to remove the preceding blank characters (I know TRIM to remove the
trailing blanks)

See the ADJUSTL intrinsic function. Yes, it just moves the blanks to the
end instead of removing them. But,

1. You could then use TRIM to remove the blanks from the end if desired.

2. Blanks on the end of filenames have no effect anyway. The standard
specifies that; it is not compiler dependent. Leading and trainling
blanks are different on this. As you have discovered, leading blanks can
have an effect.

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Richard Maine
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