On 19 May 96, Ronald Schlegel wrote to All:
 RS> Hello....
 RS>   I have a question that I've been "fighting" for quite some time.
 RS> I am trying to extract a pathname from a *.DAT file. This pathname is
 RS> just called out as a directory (ie C:\BBS), but in the dat file, it is
 RS> declared as a "STRING * 81". How can I "strip" the spaces from the
 RS> right? I have tried RTRIM$ (among others) with no luck at all. What I
 RS> need to be able to do is to use the directory name & "tack on" a
 RS> filename.
The data is probably null terminated, Ron.  What you might need to do is
read the pathname and then use left$ to extract it once you reach the null
terminator and then rtrim$ the result to remove any blanks:
DIM PATHNAME AS STRING * 81
pathname = left$(pathname,instr(pathname, CHR$(0)) - 1)
pathname = rtrim$(pathname)
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