Rtrim not working

[VBABeginner1]

Sub Concate()


Dim i As Long
Dim c As String






    Dim WS1 As Worksheet
    Dim WS2 As Worksheet
    
    Set WS1 = Worksheets("BEFORE AND AFTER")
    Set WS2 = Worksheets("COMPARE")
    
For i = 4 To 10004
WS2.Cells(i, 123) = WS1.Cells(i, 188) & " " & WS1.Cells(i, 189)
c = RTrim(WS2.Cells(i, 123))
Next i

Whenever I run this, it still has the trailing space to the right. I am doing this to correct the problem if the 2nd cell in the concatenate is blank....... (WS1.cells(i, 189) in this example.

 

[Norie]

Are you sure the character is actually a space?

 

[mole999]

maybe try TRIM, otherwise you might have a hidden space

 

[Rick Rothstein]

Sub Concate()


Dim i As Long
Dim c As String






    Dim WS1 As Worksheet
    Dim WS2 As Worksheet
    
    Set WS1 = Worksheets("BEFORE AND AFTER")
    Set WS2 = Worksheets("COMPARE")
    
For i = 4 To 10004
WS2.Cells(i, 123) = WS1.Cells(i, 188) & " " & WS1.Cells(i, 189)
[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]c = RTrim(WS2.Cells(i, 123))[/COLOR][/B]
Next i

Whenever I run this, it still has the trailing space to the right. I am doing this to correct the problem if the 2nd cell in the concatenate is blank....... (WS1.cells(i, 189) in this example.

To follow up on what Norie posted, I thing you may have non-breaking spaces (ASCII 160) rather than normal spaces (ASCII 32) in your cells. This can happen if you copy text from webpages. See if changing the red highlighted line of code to this makes it work correctly...

c = RTrim(Replace(WS2.Cells(i, 123), Chr(160), " "))

 

[VBABeginner1]

I tried this : c = RTrim(Replace(WS2.Cells(i, 123), Chr(160), " "))
and tried it as Trim (without the R)

I still have the same issue.

Would there be a way to alter this code that if the second part of the concatenate is blank that it just ignores it?

 

[Fluff]

If you want to write the trimmed value to the cell try

For i = 4 To 10004
   ws2.Cells(i, 123) = Ws1.Cells(i, 188) & " " & Ws1.Cells(i, 189)
   ws2.Cells(i, 123).Value = RTrim(ws2.Cells(i, 123).Value)
Next i

 

[VBABeginner1]

If you want to write the trimmed value to the cell try

For i = 4 To 10004
   ws2.Cells(i, 123) = Ws1.Cells(i, 188) & " " & Ws1.Cells(i, 189)
   ws2.Cells(i, 123).Value = RTrim(ws2.Cells(i, 123).Value)
Next i

That did it!!

Thank you so much!

 

[Fluff]

Glad we could help & thanks for the feedback