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  3. September 2001

Re[2]: Using *blank in a CL program

Todd,

>      The CL compiler treats *blanks as a character constant.  Since the
> constant
>      *blanks doesn't contain blanks or single quotes, it isn't required to be
>      surrounded by single quotes.  Therefore, SEU and the compiler didn't
> see a
>      problem.
>
>      If (&testfld = *blank) really means
>      If (&testfld = '*blank')

  Correction:

      If (&testfld = *blank) really means
      If (&testfld = '*BLANK')


>      Most programmers, including me, put all character constants within
> single
>      quotes, even though they aren't always required.

  That is a good practice.

  -mark

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