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... seems to be a problem of implicit casting rules for comparisations.
Java and many others are dealing with null terminated strings for all string
representations and are treating all these as one type.
SQL is dealing with multiple types:
- all varying length are from the same type
- each fixed length has it's own type
- SQL is strongly typed and converts for comparisons implicit with some
(undocumented) rules.
RPG has only very little (week) type support and declares all problems
following with this as a feature
D*B
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