Change the lenght of a string

[Luciana Pando]

Hi,

I have a dataset where the variable id is stored as a str9, although this id has only 8 characters of lenght in some registers. I have something like this (below). The id "00831782" has a lenght of 9 although it has only 8 characters and also it has been stored as a str9. I can see that there is a blank at the end of this registers so it counts them with a lenght of 9 (the are like stucked to the left in the browser). How I can remove this blank space at the final of this registers to identify the real lenght?

Im trying to merge this registers with another database but i cant because this registers have been stored as str9 and have only 8 characters while in the other database the are stored as str8.


id / length

000532048 / 9
000371958 / 9
001246584 / 9
00831782 / 9
01322658 / 9
01323954 / 9



I would really appreciate if you could help me.

[Jean-Claude Arbaut]

See strtrim, or ustrtrim for Unicode strings.

. di ("("+strtrim("  abc  ")+")")
(abc)

. di ("("+strltrim("  abc  ")+")")
(abc  )

. di ("("+strrtrim("  abc  ")+")")
(  abc)

[Luciana Pando]

Merci bcp pour votre aide! Maintenant il marche!!!