Need simple tcl to suppress characters

[Jason Bond]

This is probably very easy for tcl people, but I need some code to suppress the leading four carots in a location field.  Any ideas?

Thank You,

Jason Bond

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Jason,

If you are using an Xlate simply copy the fifth component to the first component and copy @null to the fifth component (if using BULKCOPY or PATHCOPY). As a result the Xlate will suppress what now become trailing carets.

I.E. ob field |^^^^data| <---before copies (if using BULKCOPY or PATHCOPY otherwise ib field looks like that) COPY 0(0)….field(0).[4]          0(0)….field(0).[0]    Field now looks like: |data^^^^data| COPY  <--- this COPY is unnecessary if not using BULKCOPY or PATHCOPY @null                            (0)….field(0).[4]  Field now: |data^^^^|  but… since the Xlate gets rid of nonsensical separators really will output like this: |data|. I think that is what you want. Jim Kosloskey

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

[Jason Bond]

Thank you, I will give that a try.

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