Re: Empty line in a CCID 1208 file

Very strange thing. Empty lines in Windows systems should only be a
sequence of X'0d0a' as the only two bytes of data in a text file, even
being CCSID(1208) which we know is UTF-8. In Unix-like systems, an empty
line should only be X'0a' as the only character on that line. You are
probably not having X'20' characters on that particular CCSID 424 because
that is an EBCDIC character encoding, not a Unicode (or lastly ASCII)
encoding. What you may be reading is probably X'40' bytes which actually
translate into an @ sign in ASCII and even UTF-8 so it counts as non-blank
characters.

JS.

El lun, 24 oct 2022 a las 4:37, Gad Miron (<gadmiron@xxxxxxxxx>) escribió:

Hello guys

I am having trouble excluding empty lines when selecting (SQL)
lines from a CCID(1208) file.
SQL functions Trim, Length etc. fail to identify empty field
for instance: Length(Trim(EmptyField)) returns 540
where clause with EmptyField <> ' ' does not cut it as well.

the job CCID is 424

I guess that CCID 1208 needs some special functions but it eludes me

Any suggestions?

TIA

Gad
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