RE: Is this the University of Midrange.com? (was Re: Comp in DDS)

Rob:

Okay, so you apparently want blanks to be allowed at the same time you want 
characters greater than or equal to 'A' to be allowed. I'm not yet sure if you 
only want alphabetic characters, but it seems reasonable. The problem is that 
you can only specify one COMP keyword for a field. Therefore, you can't have 
COMP EQ ' ' and COMP GE 'A' at the same time.

One way is not to use COMP at all. Instead, use VALUES().

    A                                VALUES(' ' 'A' 'B' 'C' 'D'...)

Just specify the exact list of values that you want.

Or, if you specify a keyboard shift of 'X', you can get close; but you'll also 
be allowing comma (,), period (.) and dash (-).

However, I'd say to leave the test out of the DDS and just check in your 
program.

Tom Liotta

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. RE: Is this the University of Midrange.com? (was Re: Comp in
>      DDS) (simafrog)
>
>I wanted to code against a blank, but when a blank is entered, you get the 
>Comp GE A message. It may seem extremely trivial I agree. But my leader 
>questions every I mean every 'extra' line of code as if it were coming out 
>their personal pocket.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >If you try to do COMP GT 'A' in DDS and then try to enter a blank you will
>> get the message that the 'Value must be greater than A'.

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