Date:         Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:40:45 -0800
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From:         james.p.campbell@GMAIL.COM
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Subject:      Space omitted from substr()
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Hello --

I have a file with fixed-width data, and the variables are padded with
spaces, for example

Value1   Value2   Value3
Val_a    Val_b    Val_c

I read in the file using an infile statement:
infile line $27.;

and I want to extract the contents of the first variable.  However,
using substr(line,1,9), gives me only "Value1" and "Val_a" without the
trailing spaces.  How can I preserve them?

As a note, simply breaking the data apart at the infile, e.g.
infile var1 $9. var2 $9. var3 $9.;

seems to have the same problem.

James