RE: %Trim dilemma

It still doesn't sit right with me though.  I can "see" why now, but I can 
also see myself thinking that %Trim() evals to *blanks, not a field len of 
0...
Based on the field len of 0, then this should fail:
stupidfield = *blanks;
If %Trim(stupidfield) = *blanks;
        dosomethingstupid();
Endif;

Won't that If statement evaluate to true?

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Rick,
This is exactly what is going one, for the most part.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of rick baird
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 12:57 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: %Trim dilemma

my guess is that the *all'9' is being dynamically sized to the size of
%trim()

since the size of %trim() is 0, then the size of *all'9' is also zero,
and thus cannot contain any 9s.

so, it's as if you're comparing ( '' = '' ) which is true.