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Program 4.11:                                                        Output:

















                                                        Purpose:                                 Syntax
                      LEFT               Align all leading blanks to right corner              left(string)

                     RIGHT                Align all trailing blanks to left corner            right(string)
                     STRIP               Remove all trailing and leading blanks               strip(string)
                      TRIM                     Remove all trailing  blanks                    trim(string)

               Program 4.11:                                                        Output:













                                             Purpose:                                  Syntax

                COMPRESS         by default it will reduce all blanks   compress(string,[compressed item])

                  COMPBL      it will reduce all blanks to single blank            compbl(string)






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