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On 2014-07-02 11:56, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
Yeah, I know - although *blanks seems to be valid for an empty string
comparison. I ran a quick test -

Right. An empty string is to any figurative constant. A figurative constant has the length of whatever it is compared to, so when *BLANKS is compared to an empty string, *BLANKS also has a length of zero.


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