RE: Date()

Not the same Mark.

book is a pointer to a Java object.

The reference is null, which is why it works.

Charles Wilt
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> Like this?
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>      // 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.
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> Joe,
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> 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.
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> As for the extra space in the file (shrug).  It's a database. 
>  I'm not too
> concerned about how the data is stored.
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> Paul
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> Joe wrote
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> > 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.
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> > 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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