Antwort: How to place null characters in a record

hi paul,
the RPG manual says in the section about figurative constants, that there 
is something like:

*ALLX'x1..'
Character fields: The hexadecimal literal X'x1..' is cyclically repeated 
to a
length equal to the associated field.

So i'd try: 
move *ALLX'00' alfa4k

I didn't try it, but it should work.

- Martin

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We have a file which is 4000 bytes long and contains just one field
(X(4000)). I would appreciate any suggestions  for how to place null
characters (Hex '00') in all the unused bytes after the data. Ideally in
RPG but Cobol would be ok.