Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all. -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all.
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:19:02 -0400
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On 2014-07-02 11:56, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Yeah, I know - although *blanks seems to be valid for an empty string
comparison. I ran a quick test -

Right. An empty string is to any figurative constant. A figurative constant has the length of whatever it is compared to, so when *BLANKS is compared to an empty string, *BLANKS also has a length of zero.

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