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  3. February 2009

Re: Question: If you %Trim( a blank field), does %Trim return a single blank or a *NULL ?

And, to build on Scott's answer, a zero-length field is NOT NULL - it can be called empty - big difference.

Now a zero-length field can be compared to *blanks and the result will be true - *ON

Vern

Scott Klement wrote:
%trim() would return a zero-length field.

Voris, John wrote:
It looks like if the variable is blank, it is acting OK.
So the line below does not bomb out. But I was curious what it
resolves to.

When %Trim(SFLoption) = '2' ;


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