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Don, I'd suggest making sure to wrap all those values with quotes.
Because it could lead other into falling for the *BLANKS trap.

In the past I've come across CLLE programs with
IF COND(&XXX *EQ *BLANKS) THEN(DO)

Which does NOT check for blanks like:
IF COND(&XXX *EQ ' ') THEN(DO)

It works like this how Scott mentioned below and checks for the value "*BLANKS" within the field.
IF COND(&XXX *EQ '*BLANKS') THEN(DO)


Chris Hiebert
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 9:40 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The value of *MSG in a CL Program

Don,

Coding COND(&XXX *EQ *MSG) is identical to coding COND(&XXX *EQ '*MSG')
-- they do exactly the same thing.

-SK


On 6/28/2020 9:48 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
I came across this line of code in a program and I have not been able
to find any documentation for it.

DCL VAR(&XXX) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)

IF COND(&XXX *EQ *MSG) THEN(DO)

The program is called with a value of '*MSG' for the variable &XXX

There are no quotes around the *MSG

Have you seen this before ?


Don

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