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  3. September 2001

Using *blank in a CL program

We have a young programmer.  He was writing a CL program and wanted to test
and determine if a field was blanks.  He wrote  If (&testfld = *blank) ....
We found that program compiled this way but did not accurately test for a
blank field.  We changed the program to test for '  ' and the program
worked.
We found no reference to *blank in the CL manuals and are surprised that
program compiled with this value entered.  Does anyone have a thought on
this?

Jim Hawkins
Pgmr/Analyst
Triple S Plastics, Inc.

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