Trim() Problem

[Guest]

I'm pulling text data in from a DB2 table. Some of the text is coming with a
lot of spaces at the end. I have tried the Trim() function but it has no
effect. When I tried Replace([field],chr(32),"") this removed the spaces at
the end but it also removed the spaces between the words as well. Can anyone
suggest a solution? Thanks.

DK

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

It's possible that the string is text, followed by spaces, with some other
(perhaps non-visible) character at the end.

If you do Msgbox Asc(Right([NameOfField], 1)), what do you get?

 

[Guest]

Msgbox Asc(Right([NameOfField], 1)) returns a 0.

It's possible that the string is text, followed by spaces, with some other
(perhaps non-visible) character at the end.

If you do Msgbox Asc(Right([NameOfField], 1)), what do you get?

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)

I'm pulling text data in from a DB2 table. Some of the text is coming with
a
lot of spaces at the end. I have tried the Trim() function but it has no
effect. When I tried Replace([field],chr(32),"") this removed the spaces
at
the end but it also removed the spaces between the words as well. Can
anyone
suggest a solution? Thanks.

DK

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

That's the problem. 0 is a Null character, not a blank. Trim will stop at
the first non-blank character it sees.

See whether using Trim(Mid([NameOfField], Len([NameOfField]) - 1) works any
better.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)

Msgbox Asc(Right([NameOfField], 1)) returns a 0.

It's possible that the string is text, followed by spaces, with some
other
(perhaps non-visible) character at the end.

If you do Msgbox Asc(Right([NameOfField], 1)), what do you get?

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)

I'm pulling text data in from a DB2 table. Some of the text is coming
with
a
lot of spaces at the end. I have tried the Trim() function but it has
no
effect. When I tried Replace([field],chr(32),"") this removed the
spaces
at
the end but it also removed the spaces between the words as well. Can
anyone
suggest a solution? Thanks.

DK