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PIPE STRIP
PIPE STRIP
Syntax
STRIP:
STRIP
BOTH
LEADING
TRAILING
TO
NOT
BLANK
/charset/ limit
Command Description
The PIPE STRIP stage removes blanks or other specified characters from the
beginning or end of message data. Alternately, STRIP removes all characters up to a
blank or other specified characters.
Streams
230 Programming: Pipes
You can use the STRIP stage to remove unwanted blanks or other characters before
you use the JOINCONT stage.
Stream Type Number Supported
Input 1
Output 1
Termination Conditions
STRIP terminates when the input stream or the output stream is disconnected.
Operand Descriptions
BLANK
The default is to remove blanks.
BOTH
Removes blanks or other specified characters from both the beginning and the
end of the text in the message lines. This is the default.
/charset/
Specifies the set of characters to be stripped. Order and duplicate characters
are ignored. The delimited set must be specified.
The first nonblank character encountered after the keywords is the delimiter
which establishes the boundary of the character set used by the stage. The
delimited set ends when the same character is encountered a second time. //
is interpreted as a null set.
LEADING
Removes blanks or other specified characters from only the beginning of the
text in the message lines.
limit
The maximum number of characters to be removed by STRIP. If you use
BOTH, the limit applies separately to the leading and trailing strip operation.