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  3. June 2003

Is it possible to do this with key fields?

Have an unusual situation with a 15-character alpha field (USER03) that I need 
to turn into a key
field in a Vendor file in a new logical file.  It will hold the value of a 
4-digit company number
*or* it will be blank.  The keys in the new logical will be USER03, then 
VENDOR#.  Somehow, for
the purposes of reading this logical in key sequence, I need treat a value of 
blanks and a value
of '0030' the same, in essence, reading the file in "sequence" as follows:

USER03  VENDOR
'0020'  9877412
'0030'  1254478
'    '  2214778
'0030'  4174411
'0040'  1234567

I think I already know that this can't be done, but is there a way to play with 
the collating
sequence or somesuch?

TIA, Dan



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