Language Reference

ROWCATC Function

concatenates rows using blank compression

ROWCATC( matrix<, rows<, columns>);

The inputs to the ROWCATC function are as follows:

matrix

is a character matrix or quoted literal.

rows

select the rows of matrix.

columns

select the columns of matrix.

The ROWCATC function works the same way as the ROWCAT function except that blanks in element strings are moved to the end of the concatenation. For example, the following statements produce the matrix as shown:

  
    b={"ABC"  "D  "  "EF ", 
       " GH"  " I "  " JK"}; 
    a=rowcatc(b);
 

  
       A        2 rows      1 col     (character, size 9) 
  
                         ABCDEF 
                         GHIJK
 

Quotes (") are needed only if you want to embed blanks or special characters or to maintain uppercase and lowercase distinctions.