Re: Space and Tab - in flat file

[Stephen Ratliff <stephenratliff@HOTMAIL.COM>]

What Jamie suggested should work fine.

Stephen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Harris" <JHarris@FREDERICK.EDU>
To: <SQR-USERS@list.iex.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Space and Tab - in flat file


> Try this:
>
> let $tab = chr(09)
> let $whatever = ltrim($whatever, $tab)
>
> It should work, but I didn't try it.
>
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> Jamie Harris
> Junior Systems Programmer/Analyst
> Information Technology Division
> Frederick Community College
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> >>> parthiban@IWON.COM 10/2/2002 5:32:29 PM >>>
>  Hi all, I am trying to read a file which has leading tabs and spaces.
> Using ltrim function I amable to l-trim spaces, not tabs. How to Ltrim
> tabs?..I can write a code to do the same, but like to know if SQR
> function can do that.. Thanks,Parthiban Subbiah
>
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