Zero-length strings are only supported for initial values. A field cannot have zero length, so if the initial value is an empty string, there must be an explicit length.
> On 2020-04-21, at 01:53:11, Jonathan Scott wrote: > > > > Support for zero-length strings was added in HLASM 1.3 in around > > 1998, but it was common for a long time after that to include a > > trailing space on an initial value just in case that release had > > not yet been installed. > > > I generally have to go out of my way to *not* support the > left boundary condition. Alas, the SS instruction set makes > it easy. > > Does the length attribute appear as 0? > > -- gil Jonathan Scott, HLASM IBM Hursley, UK
