Re: *BLANKS = spaces? -- RPG400-L

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Douglas Handy wrote:

> It is the same.  There is no difference between a "blank" and a
> "space" -- they are synonyms for x'40' in EBCDIC.
>

Not completely true, I fear.

I once did an SQL on a file to retrieve two records that were not correctly
filled. One character field in those records was empty in comparison to the rest
of the records.

I wrote SELECT * FROM file WHERE field = ' ' (one space) and I got no result.
Then I tried SELECT * FROM file WHERE field < ' ' (one space) and the two 
records
were returned.

You would expect spaces, but they were *BLANKS.

Carel.

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