RE: Using *blank in a CL program

This isn't an RPG question, but, CL relaxed it's syntax checking to
accept anything with * in front of it several releases ago. I'm sure the
compiler should have caught this by SEU probably didn't.

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Jim_Hawkins@tsss.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:40 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: 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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