Re: create a null character in tab delimited text file - Client Acces s Express

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:50 09/21/2000 , Larry Wagner wrote:
>I'm told I need a tab delimited file with spaces before the tabs and null
>values in fields with no data. I can create fields with X'20' with RPG
>program and have been using fields with X'40' between "normal" fields. After
>going thru Client Access Express the fields with this X'20' look like a dot
>right in the middle of the character (centered up and down and left and
>right) and of course aren't a null on the SQL server when loaded there. I
>must be making this too complicated ! ?

This is probably way to simple to work, but ebcdic space tab would be 
X'4005'. If you string two of these together, would that make a null field? 
Otherwise, maybe try X'2009002009' and transfer without translation?
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
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