On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:38:51 -0500, Ricc Harding wrote: >Is there some reason why you don't initialize it to nulls? > >SET &X = &STR() > >Always set to a known value of nulls... > Ignorance. I tried the first thing that occurred to me:
SET &X = &SUBSTR(1:0,junk) ... (why not?) and it failed. I concluded that CLIST is intolerant of nulls. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html