Re: Date()

Like this?


     // instantiate a new workbook object if not found.
        workbookObject = newWorkbookObject();
        s_fileName = new_String(qualFileName);
        book = openWorkbook(workbookObject:s_fileName);
        if book = *null;
           book = new_HSSFWorkbook();
        endif;


I'm on V5R2.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


                                                                           
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Joe,

That's an RPG problem which could be solved by letting us compare any
variable against some sort of *NULL reserved word.  Take some of the SQL
logic for null values and include that in RPG.  Let's ditch the %nullind()
BIF.

As for the extra space in the file (shrug).  It's a database.  I'm not too
concerned about how the data is stored.

Paul

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Joe wrote

> I hate null indicators.  I hate the extra space in the file.  I hate the
> syntax of the %nullind BIF.  I hate everything about them.  Doesn't
> matter what I think, however <g>.  They're the right way to identify
> that a field has not been entered.
>
> But it still takes an effort of will to actually use them.  Does anybody
> else have this unnatural predisposition against null indicators, or is
> it just me?



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