edits help

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> Without it, the "accept any amount of any character" part of the edit will
> accept all of the trailing spaces. Because the "&39;" expansion has
> increased the number characters in the field, the result no longer fits. By
> adding the "@" (which must come before the "*"), all of the trailing spaces
> are consumed, and are not part of the resulting value. Therefore, unless
> the expanded value is too long to fit, the edit "works". (Consider the
> case of a field consisting of nothing but apostrophes.) However, using
> DOEDIT() and passing an explicit length, can work around this.

But you're still not going to get any indication that you may have tried to
expand off the end of the destination field, as you could with a 'function',
right?

Cheers,
-- jra
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