Eliminate Initial Whitespace Only in OBX.5

[Gordon Koch]

I hope someone can help with a need I have to eliminate the initial blank or whitespace in the OBX.5 field. I do not know how to regsub only the initial whitespace until the first characters or real data. For example:

OBX|5|TX|MICRO||     XXXXXX  XXXXXX  XXX

should be

OBX|5|TX|MICRO||XXXXXX  XXXXXX  XXX

A little tcl help here…

Thank you

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Gordon,

I have a tcl proc that will do that but the essential Tcl command would be the string trimleft command. Do a help on string in hcitcl or tcl – or look in the Help on the GUI for the structure of the command.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Gordon Koch]

Thank you Jim. I should have thought of that.

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