Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Dan McGrath writes Hi all, Hopefully I'm not going crazy, but I could have sworn in UD 7.1 that doing a <-1> to append an empty string would not actually appended anything. For example: As I understood it, the problem was always appending TO an empty string, not appending an em

Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Brian Leach
In UniVerse this is configurable via the $OPTIONS EXTRA.DELIM flag as well as being flavor dependent. But also in UniVerse, there is a specific null value (@NULL) as opposed to an empty string which is logically different. Brian ___ U2-Users mailing li

Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Mecki Foerthmann
s-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan McGrath > Sent: 03 May 2010 07:13 > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values > > Actually, I think I've just remembered part of it, but not the rest. > &

Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-03 Thread Symeon Breen
somewhere - it throws the arrays out of synch -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan McGrath Sent: 03 May 2010 07:13 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values Actually, I think I&#

Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-02 Thread Dan McGrath
g.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kate Stanton Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:53 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values Hi Dan, You are not the crazy one. It changed some years ago (UniVerse anyway) - we found out the hard way. That and the

Re: [U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-02 Thread Kate Stanton
t;Dan McGrath" To: "U2 Users List" Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:35 PM Subject: [U2] <-1> and Null values Hi all, Hopefully I'm not going crazy, but I could have sworn in UD 7.1 that doing a <-1> to append an empty string would not actually appended anythi

[U2] <-1> and Null values

2010-05-02 Thread Dan McGrath
Hi all, Hopefully I'm not going crazy, but I could have sworn in UD 7.1 that doing a <-1> to append an empty string would not actually appended anything. For example: REC = 'A' REC<-1> = '' Would result in REC equaling 'A', not 'A':@AM In fact, I even have some in-house tools I wro